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Michael Rosen was born in 1946, the son of educationalists Harold and Connie Rosen. He began writing when he was about sixteen under the influence, he says, of a combination of the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, e. e. cummings, Carl Sandburg and Robert Browning. His first published work was a play,Backbone (1969, Faber), and his first work for children wasMind Your Own Business (1974, Andre Deutsch). Since then his time has been divided between writing, visiting schools, talking to teachers, and working in radio and television. His best known books areDon't Put Mustard in the Custard (1985, Andre Deutsch), one of several highly successful collaborations with Quentin Blake,You Tell Me (1979, Kestrel, later, Viking); a joint collection of poetry with Roger McGough; andWe're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989, Walker), a prize-winning collaboration with Helen Oxenbury. He has produced many anthologies, adaptations of folktales, and short stories for a wide variety of publishers. His radio work includes presenting BBC Radio 4's “Treasure Islands,” a program for parents and teachers on recent developments in children's literature. Since 1993, when he studied for the Reading University M.A. in children's literature, he has taken up lecturing on children's literature at the University of North London. He is at present chairing a long-term poetry study group based at the Centre for Language in Primary Education, London.
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Rosen, M. Robert Louis Stevenson and children's play: The contexts ofA child's garden of verses . Child Lit Educ 26, 53–72 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02360341
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