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Michael Wayne Rosen was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex, on 7 May 1946. His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia, and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund. His middle name was given to him in honour of Wayne C. Booth, a literary critic who was billeted with hi...
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 foun...
Education policy
Rosen is a long-standing critic of the standardised model of National Curriculum assessment (SATs) and believes English education should focus more on reading. He has accused English SATs of "distorting and wrecking poetry",and described the grammar taught in primary education as "a package of outdated, rigid, misleading, prescriptive, disputed terms".
Jeremy Corbyn
In August 2015, Rosen endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign in the Labour Party election. He contributed to Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems from 20 writers. In the same month, he was one of many Jewish public figures who signed an open letter criticising The Jewish Chronicle's reporting of Corbyn's association with alleged antisemites. In 2016, along with others, he toured the UK to support Corbyn's bid to become Prime Minister. In November 2019, along with other Jewish public...
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In August 2010, Rosen contributed to an e-book collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State, edited by Alan Morrison. Rosen stood in the 2004 London Assembly Elections as a Respect Coalition candidate for the Londonwide list. He is a supporter of the Republiccampaign. He has written columns for the Socialist Worker and spoken at conferences organised by the Socialist Workers Party.
Rosen was appointed the sixth British Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held the honour until June 2009, when he was succeeded by Anthony Browne. Rosen signed off from the Laureateship with an article in The Guardian, in which he said, "Sometimes when I sit with children when they have the space to talk and write a...
Rosen has been married three times and has five children and two step-children. His second son Eddie (1980–1999) died at the age of 18 from meningococcal septicaemia, and his death was the inspiration for Rosen's 2004 work Sad Book. Rosen lives in North Londonwith his third wife, Emma-Louise Williams, and their two children. In March 2020, during t...
—— (1989). We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Walker Books.—— (2004). Sad Book. Candlewick Press.—— (2021). Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS. Ebury Press.Articles
1. Rosen, Michael (4 March 2006). "What's a story for?". Socialist Worker (1990). Archived from the originalon 21 March 2006.
Book reviews
1. Perring, Christian (15 May 2005). "Michael Rosen's Sad Book". Metapsychology. 9 (19). Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2007.
News reports
1. Franks, Alan (26 October 2002), "Of love and loss", The Times, archived from the original on 15 June 2011. 2. Hattenstone, Simon (12 June 2007), "Forever young", The Guardian (g2), London. 3. "Ian McMillan's writing lab: Michael Rosen interview". OpenLearn. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2014.. 4. Michael Rosen's interview, Onion Street, bbc.co.uk, archived from the original on 3 February 2003, retrieved 30 June 2007. 5. Mansfield, Susan (24 August 2007), "Poetry is the greatest teach...
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