The Michael Rosen Rap
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On the front of BfK this month is the cover of Yesterday by Adèle Geras. The artwork is by Carolyn Piggford. This book is one from the 'Teenage Memoirs' series published by Walker (see the article, All Their Yesterdays, in this issue) and Adèle, of course, is the subject of our Authorgraph - see centre-spread. Our thanks to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.
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Michael Rosen
These poems are typically accessible Michael Rosen: short, simple and embedded in friendly anecdotal chat and little jokes - 'You must NOT draw on Naomi's bed'; 'OK, I'll draw on mine.' This is the homely world of kissing goodnight routines, headaches - 'your skull squeezing your brain' - where mums get sulky and dads shout. It's real life treated with humour and a simple enjoyment of words: 'My mum and dad don't get sulky, don't shout, don't live with each other.' All the poems come from The Hypnotiser, published in Lions by Harper Collins.