PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Michael Rosen is the author of over 140 books of poetry, stories and politics. He was the Children’s Laureate between 2007–2009 and is currently the Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths University. He has won numerous international awards for his work in literature. He presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4.
In his writing, he puts on no airs; his literary background (English degree from Wadham, Oxford) has not held him up - or back. Sometimes his writing is so simple, you wonder at it: how did he resist the temptation to dress it up? He knows - in his work at least - when to stop. * Observer * The lovely thing about Rosen's writing is that it is rooted in the reality of his own post-war childhood - you can smell the matzo bray his father makes as a treat when his mother is out, hear the wheels squeak on his go-kart, sense the thrill of him and his 10-year-old friend Mart on holiday climbing the Sugar Loaf mountain and crossing from Wales into England with their trousers down. * Guardian * Throughout his career, Rosen has inspired children and adults to fall in love with reading. * Independent * It's a mishmash, at once merry and pensive, of personal memoir, a history of left politics in postwar England, a portal into a lost Jewish London and a portrait of the artist as a nervy young man. -- Sukhdev Sandhu * Guardian *
