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Michael Rosen

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Also known as Michael Wayne Rosen

British children's author and poet (born 1946)

Person · Open Library

Born
7 May 1946
Works
418

Top works

  • Neighbour's Cat
  • Bear's Day Out
  • A Spider Bought a Bicycle
  • What Is Poetry?
  • Oww!

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Michael Rosen

Born in 1963, in Ithaca, New York, Michael has been living and working in Europe, since graduating from Berklee School of Music, where he studied with George Garzone, Bill Peirce and Gary Burton, among others, After an Italian and Swiss tour in 1987 with keyboardist Delmar Brown, he subsequently settled in Italy, where he has been highly successful as both a live and studio musician. During his tenure on the southern european music scene, Michael <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Rosen

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Quotes

  • [W]hat possible objections can we have to anyone, anywhere, writing a book for children? After all, it's not terribly difficult. I'll rephrase that: it's difficult to write a brilliant one, but anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. Anyone who comes anywhere near children ought to be able to write at least one more. And in an ideal world, shouldn't every parent, teacher, grandparent, child-carer have a go?
  • Respect is fatal, isn't it?
  • I think human life is absurd. I think it is completely, utterly absurd. There is this planet and it's this tiny place in the universe and then on this planet are crawling over it these little people who think that their lives are so incredibly important and, you know, an enormous amount of effort is spent killing each other, which just drives me completely nuts when I think about it, and making people poor while other people have whatever they want, and it's utterly absurd.
  • He wanted to make a mirror. Glass, mercury and a wooden frame- the perfect mirror. But he was no good at it. So he went to the people he knew and asked them for a mirror. All they could give him were bits of old mirror. He took these home, stuck them on a board and hung it up. It's a mirror.
  • "dear joe, your wild noisy huge brother is dead. I couldn't do what my parents did:bring two boys, four years apart through the maze."
  • It's nice of you to say you'll always remember him. You won't.

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