Childrens Author of the Month

From former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, comes a new collection of poetry. A collection of poems to take the reader out of this world and go on a journey of imagination and time travel, through history, geography and beyond!

All the mice scarper, skedaddle and scoot back to their hidey-holes when Dread Cat's about. But now he's promised to turn over a new leaf. Instead of chasing mice he will feed them tasty bits of cheese. Can the mice trust a word Dread Cat says? Is the war between cat and mouse really over?

There is a plot. That's the plot of the story. Or is it? The plot of the story could also be that Uncle Gobb has an evil plot. And his plot is about a plot. A plot of land. Are you following? Good! The plot of land is behind Malcolm's school and it is where Uncle Gobb wants to set up his own riva...

Gaston le Dog longs to return to the beautiful beach he remembers from years ago. So he sets off on an adventure - but mystery and danger lurk at every turn, and Gaston will need all the help he can get from the friends he meets along the way. But can they all be trusted? And will Gaston's odysse...

Goldilocks and her little dog are off on an adventure, looking for that house again - the one with the chairs, the porridge and beds. The sound of the sea calls to them and before they know it, they have found quite a different sort of a house - there are bowls, and chairs and sort-of beds - plus...

Former Children's Laureates Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a personal and uniquely affecting collection of poems about migration and displacement. Michael's poems are divided into four: in the first series, he draws on his childhood as part of a first-generation Polish family...

Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with his teenaged cousin, Bernie, in Poland. While Solly is evacuated and tries his best to adjust to life in the English countryside, Bernie's parents know that as Jews they're not safe staying in Warsaw, so they send Bernie to the Russi...

Goldilocks and her little dog are off on an adventure, looking for that house again - the one with the chairs, the porridge and beds. The sound of the sea calls to them and before they know it, they have found quite a different sort of a house - there are bowls, and chairs and sort-of beds - plus...

The second uproarious adventure from the comic pairing of Michael Rosen and Neal Layton sees Malcolm and the peculiar Uncle Gobb go to America, each with a cunning plan. Even though Malcolm managed to bamboozle and confuzle Uncle Gobb in the last book (hooray!), it was only temporary (boo!). Uncl...

This is a perfectly ordinary story featuring one perfectly ordinary ten year old, his very bossy uncle, some baked beans, a school which tries to make interesting things BORING, the famed Italian city of Ponky, and a genie who appears when you rub your nose. It also includes lots of very useful f...

This playful book captures the excitable energy of a child who just can't sit still, joyfully moving from the familiar to the absurd - until they finally run out of steam. An exuberant read-aloud from master of rhyme Michael Rosen, coupled with bold and bouncing illustrations from Robert Starling...

This is a lively collection of nonsense verse brought together by popular author Michael Rosen, and includes some new poems of his own.