Michael Rosen's Sad Book

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If the book and the play stop short of spelling out the failures of government that contribute to the suffering of girls like Shona, the message of a failing system is implicit. Is Rosen hopeful things can change?

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Michael Rosen – NTU Honorary Graduate – 22nd July 2010". YouTube . Retrieved 27 November 2012. [ dead YouTube link] This is as much a book about finding the words to express our troubles as it is about the author’s life and Rosen, who is professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, is a generous teacher. We feel his doubts, his uncertainty and his curiosity. “I’m right at the very edge of what I understand,” he says, but in writing, in sharing, in striving for meaning, he offers readers a lifeline, and shows them they are not going through it alone. Michael Rosen is one of the UK’s most celebrated children’s poets and authors, with a writing and performing career spanning half a century. His poems and stories have captivated generations of children. But alongside the joy and humour of much of his work, he has experienced personal loss and hardship which has also inspired his writing.Frot, Mathilde (20 January 2022). "Activist's widow pays tearful tribute". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023 . Retrieved 5 April 2023. Styles, Morag (July 1988). "Authorgraph No 51 – Michael Rosen". Books for Keeps: The Children's Book Magazine (51). Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 22 January 2016. Prolific children's writer, Michael Rosen, was born in Middlesex in 1946 and studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University.

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Glynn, Paul (28 June 2023). "Michael Rosen 'honoured' to win PEN Pinter Prize". BBC News . Retrieved 2 July 2023.

In March 2020, as the pandemic rumbled into our lives, the writer and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen contracted Covid-19 and was hospitalised, spending 40 days and nights in a coma. Before he was sedated, a doctor asked if he would sign a piece of paper that would let them put him to sleep. “Will I wake up?” Rosen said. There’s a 50-50 chance, the doctor replied. “If I don’t sign?” he asked. Zero.

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Rosen says both books are a direct result of his brush with death. “After having Covid, I was in a state of reverie for at least three months. Forty days of having drugs put in you, plus Covid, will do that. In that reverie my mind was darting to and fro, thinking about Eddie, my mum, my dad and whether I would ever work again. In my mind, it sort of brought it all together.”Eddie in Bed’, like many of Rosen’s poems, is based on his real-life son Eddie (one of seven children, many of whom feature in their father’s poems). Tragically, Eddie died of meningitis at the age of 18, and Rosen channelled his grief into writing an award-winning book about bereavement, Michael Rosen's Sad Book (2004). The book is illustrated by Quentin Blake, who has illustrated many of Rosen’s books throughout the years. It is aimed at children - though it could equally be used by adults - and it presents a frank but heartfelt account of the emotions aroused by bereavement. He does not present any rose-tinted happy ending, but rather emphasises the importance of learning to live with the sadness, rather than expecting it to end. Eddie’s death also features strongly in Carrying the Elephant (2002), a collection of poems about Rosen’s life, from his own childhood memories to his terrible bereavement, through to his current life with his third wife and more young children. From 1969-1972, he was a trainee at the BBC, working in radio drama, and on Play School and Schools Television. He then spent three years at the National Film School, publishing his first book of poetry, Mind Your Own Business, in 1974. This book was not originally written for children, but appeared on Deutsch's children's list, and from that point on, his career was set. Since 1976, he has been writing, performing, teaching, and appearing on radio and television. He also writes regularly for The Guardian. A Materialist and Intertextual Examination of the Process of Writing a Work of Children's Literature" (PDF). University of North London. October 1997. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 September 2021.

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Michael Wayne Rosen [2] was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex, [3] on 7 May 1946. [4] His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia, [3] and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund. [5] His middle name was given to him in honour of Wayne C. Booth, a literary critic who was billeted with his father at Shrivenham American University. [2] He is also well established as a broadcaster presenting a range of documentary features on British radio. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's regular magazine programme Word of Mouth which looks at the English language and the way it is used. a b c d "Michael Rosen interview". WriteWords Writers' Community. February 2004. Archived from the original on 2 April 2004 . Retrieved 17 January 2015. Franks, Alan (26 October 2002), "Of love and loss", The Times, archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Word of Mouth". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 23 December 2008 . Retrieved 26 November 2008.Sometimes I’m sad and I don’t know why. It’s just a cloud that comes along and covers me up. It’s not because Eddie’s gone. It’s not because my mom’s gone. It’s just because. Rosen’s word-play is not limited to his poetry. In Arabian Frights and Other Gories (1994), he re-tells traditional fairytales in a nonsensical style, such as ‘Little Head Riding Pudd’: ‘One day, her mother said, “Little Head Riding Pudd, here is a jar of traffic jam to put on Fred Rolls. Take them to Bran. She’s ill and they will make her bitter”' Michaelrosen (22 June 2012). "Michael Rosen: Why universities close down courses: my experience". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018 . Retrieved 10 June 2018.