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Michael Rosen

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about change and its lack of encoded rules. Then, together with them, we should look closely at how such people’s speech and writing diverges from the kind of English that they would like to acquire.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought relies on a person’s experience of reading widely and often – in combination with open-ended but challenging discussion.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of becoming a writer for children is seeing what published writers do and say when they appear.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

I think of children’s books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

My main motive for going into children’s literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some ways, I imagine I’m returning the favour.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people – quite often the first reading materials given to people in the 1950s were their tales.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

People always imagine that the whole of Victorian England was sitting around reading Alice in Wonderland – in fact only a tiny minority ever did.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don’t see books and learning as a separate part of life.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

Politicians of all kinds think there’s some running in talking tough about children’s reading. They think that if they announce to the public that some kind of daily drilling on sounds and letters is to be brought in, the problem of children’s reading will be solved.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes. It doesn’t. Very nearly all poetry is full of ambiguity and suggestiveness.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it’s about, how it works, how it’s constructed and so on. If you write a poem alongside it, to complement it, you start to feel poetry’s method, poetry’s way of looking at things.

– Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix – yes, some schools junked it – but most schools follow it. This matrix determined what children have to study and when.

– Michael Rosen

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