Michael Rosen Quotes

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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.

Michael Rosen

Sometimes because I'm sad I do bad things.
I can't tell you what they are.
They are too bad. And it's not fair on the cat.

Michael Rosen

"People are good," he said. "They'll all
be good to you. Except one."

Michael Rosen

You ask me how it's possible for me to carry on. I wonder
if I look like someone who looks like
it's possible to carry on.

Michael Rosen

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.

Michael Rosen

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

Michael Rosen

It's nice of you to say you'll always remember him. You won't.

Michael Rosen

I mucked about with his hair. His shoes
were where he left them. His shoes are where he
left them.

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

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Born: May 7, 1946 (age 78)

Bio: Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's novelist and poet, the author of 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist.

Known for:

Sad Book (2004)
Quick, let's get out of here (1983)
Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things (2010)
A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young (2015)
Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed (2015)

Michael Rosen on Wikipedia

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