Our son brought home a reading book, and peering out from the pages was a picture of Michael Rosen, although it did not say so any where in the book.
Apparently he has just become children’s laureate:
Michael Rosen, who was today appointed children’s laureate, set out his stall for the two-year stint with a pledge to fight to bring back into classrooms a love of reading for pleasure.
The above book scan comes from the ‘Oxford Reading Tree’, see his comment about it:
“It’s taken a long time for my daughter to bring a picture book home from school because she’s been bringing home the Oxford Reading Tree day after day, week after week. The idea that that’s what the school provides to children in her class who might not encounter other books horrifies me. We don’t care about lists of words. We care about the Gruffalo. So why aren’t kids bringing home The Gruffalo?”
Anyway, belated congratulations Michael.
