So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir

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Comedian Cariad Lloyd said of this book that it’s “like having a cup of tea and a chat with Michael himself”, and I’d have to agree. There’s no ego here, no ulterior motive, and he’s not trying to prove anything. It’s just him talking about his own experience and how he might be able to help others, and its just warming, humorous, silly, natural, and above all, honest. Really honest. And we all need that. Michael Rosen at the 2017 Cheltenham Literature Festival signing his book, The Disappearance of Émile Zola. In November 2019, along with other Jewish public figures, Rosen signed an open letter supporting Corbyn, describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsing him in the 2019 UK general election. [38] In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, he signed an open letter endorsing the Labour Party under Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few". [39] [40]

In 1969, Rosen graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, and became a graduate trainee at the BBC. Among the work that he did while there in the 1970s was presenting a series on BBC Schools television called Walrus (write and learn, read, understand, speak). He was also scriptwriter on the children's reading series Sam on Boffs' Island, but Rosen found working for the corporation frustrating: "Their view of 'educational' was narrow. The machine had decided this was the direction to take. Your own creativity was down the spout." Durrant, Sabine (6 September 2014). "Michael Rosen: Why curiosity is the key to life". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 November 2014 . Retrieved 2 November 2014.

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Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it,” reads the subtitle of celebrated children’s writer Michael Rosen’s new book. It’s a reference to We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, one of his best-loved works. Part memoir, part self-help manual, Rosen’s latest publication considers what it is to get better, “what it means, and how we do it.”

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.” Letters | Vote for hope and a decent future". The Guardian. 3 December 2019. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019 . Retrieved 4 December 2019.Rosen, Michael (4 March 2006). "What's a story for?". Socialist Worker (1990). Archived from the original on 21 March 2006. UWE Bristol: News". Info.uwe.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013 . Retrieved 27 November 2012. In June 2007, Michael Rosen became the fifth Children’s Laureate -- he is the first poet to step into this prestigious role. In Getting Better, Rosen describes the moment he discovered a photograph of a baby boy sitting on his mother’s knee. When he asked his father who the boy was, Rosen or his older brother, Brian, his father said neither – that it was a third son, Alan, who had died as an infant, before Rosen was born. Rosen was 10 at the time. Nobody in his family had spoken of Alan previously, there were no photographs of him in the house. And though Rosen’s father, Harold, mentioned Alan from time to time over the course of his life, Rosen never spoke about him with his mother, Connie. Rosen, who also presents the BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘Word of Mouth’, which explores the English language, talks excitedly of his plans for his two years as Children’s Laureate:

Prolific children's writer, Michael Rosen, was born in Middlesex in 1946 and studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. 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. This is a book about surviving. For Rosen, that invariably involves writing, to process his thoughts and emotions. Through a mixture of reminiscences and lessons, he also shows us “getting better” as running, as taking pills, as self-improvement, as something you cannot do on your own, as joy; and even as stuffing difficult feelings into a box when necessary. Rosen never imposes answers on us: “We can watch what others do, listen to what people say, but in the end we have to make it work for whoever we are and whatever life situation we’re in.” Bearn, Emily (16 November 2008), "A novel approach to the classroom", The Sunday Times, archived from the original on 20 May 2013 , retrieved 25 November 2008 We're Going on a Bear Hunt is a children's novel written by Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. The book won the overall Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1989 and also won the 0–5 years category. The publisher, Walker Books, celebrated the Work's 25th anniversary in 2014 by breaking a Guinness World Record for the 'Largest Reading Lesson'.

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His new collection of prose poems, Many Different Kinds of Love, with drawings by Chris Riddell, is his attempt to make sense of those missing weeks last year: “It’s just gone. You can’t quite deal with it.” He felt as if he was in a “portal”: his hospital bed liminal, like the train in Harry Potter or the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, he says, his body “an unreliable narrator”. It is about “what it feels like to be seriously ill, what it feels like to nearly die, and what does recovery mean?” He likes to say that he is “recovering” rather than “recovered”. Covid has left him with “drainpipes” (Xen tubes) in his eyes, a hearing aid in one ear, missing toenails, a strange sandiness to his skin and he suffers from dizziness, breathlessness and “everything gets a bit fuzzy every now and then”. Kellaway, Kate (27 October 2002). "The children's poet who grew up: Michael Rosen talks about lone parenting, his new baby daughter – and the day his son died". The Observer. London. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013 . Retrieved 17 July 2010. In 1993, Rosen gained an MA in Children's Literature from the University of Reading and subsequently gained a PhD from the University of North London. [17] [18] Margaret Meek Spencer supervised his work and continued to support him throughout her life. [19] Rosen recording his poem "The Listening Lions" in 2014 Sharman, Andy (28 August 2008), "Michael Rosen: 'Give children books, not SATs' ", The Independent, London .

Flood, Alison (31 March 2020). "Michael Rosen 'very poorly but stable' after night in intensive care". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020 . Retrieved 31 March 2020. He is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables schoolchildren across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres. [27]Rosen’s trademark style and humour are everywhere in his pared-down prose, evoking the north London suburbs with his communist parents, Harold and Connie, who first met as impoverished teenagers in the Jewish East End of the 1930s. Politics [ edit ] Jeremy Corbyn [ edit ] Rosen at an anti-racism rally in London's Trafalgar Square in 2016