Michael Rosen

A fun-filled collection of three fabulously funny audio stories, inspired by much-loved classic characters, and brilliantly read by the author himself, Michael Rosen! Ideal listening for children aged 3+, whether at home or on the move! A wonderfully entertaining audio collection of funny stories, inspired by famous fairy tales! Hear what happens when Goldilocks finds herself in the home of a crocodile family! Join not-so-little Red Riding Hood as she’s followed by the Big Bad Wolf on her way to Granny’s. And laugh along as Snow White meets three real bears while out looking for her lost teddy! Brilliantly performed by the author himself, Michael Rosen, this fantastic collection brings together: Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles Not-So-Little Red Riding Hood Snow White and the Seven Bears Praise for Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles: 'Brilliantly funny' BookTrust Praise for Snow White and the Seven Bears: ‘Amusing … great fun to read aloud’ Books for Keeps Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles, text © Michael Rosen 2022

A fun-filled audiobook collection of three fantastic farmyard stories by highly-regarded poet, author, performer, broadcaster, and former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen. With brilliant performances from Paul McGann and Richard Briers. Laugh along at this audiobook collection of three hilarious stories from Michael Rosen, the author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. From a snoring dog and a wiggly piglet with a prickly problem, to a cat who just wants to be left alone, the fun never ends in these boisterous farmyard tales! This fantastic farmyard collection brings together: Snore!, read by Paul McGann Oww!, read by Richard Briers Shoo!, read by Richard Briers Praise for Shoo!: ‘Ideal for bedtime entertainment’ Guardian ‘From start to finish this book bristles with energy and humour’ Our Baby ‘This superb book is packed with sounds and fun’ Mother and Baby Praise for Oww!: ‘Rosen’s use of rhythm and repetition and the cumulative story-style will ensure even the youngest reader can engage with the text’ Books for Keeps Snore!, text © Michael Rosen 1998

In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Michael Rosen, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a lawyer focused on technology and intellectual property. Rosen is the author of Like Silicon From Clay: What Ancient Jewish Wisdom Can Teach Us About AI , a provocative new book that offers a framework for understanding artificial intelligence and how humans might relate to it. Arbesman’s own forthcoming book, The Magic of Code, explores similar themes—the strange and wondrous nature of computing—treating it as a kind of liberal art that intersects with language, philosophy, biology, and mythology. Together, Arbesman and Rosen delve into the taxonomy Rosen proposes for rethinking AI discourse, exploring its roots in Jewish thought. Their conversation spans early computing, alignment challenges, and the enduring relevance of ancient wisdom in shaping a more humane technological future.

👉 Michael Rosen is a YouTube sensation. His poem HOT FOOD has had 52m views. The author, poet and former children's poet laureate tells Dr Hilary how he became a meme, what inspired him to become a writer in the first place, plus his brush with death when he was hospitalised with Covid in 2020 and ended up in a coma for 48 days. Michael also talks about his first choice of career — medicine! 💬 Ask Dr Hilary. Do you need advice on sleep, diet, mental well-being, or everyday medical concerns, now's your chance to get answers. Send an email to Ask@drhilaryjones.com . For more about the show, visit https://www.drhilaryjones.com/ Michael Rosen https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/ HOT FOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akwm2UZJ34o Support the show: https://www.drhilaryjones.com/dr-hilary-jones-show/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Visit audiobookzap.com/audible to get free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Michael Rosen’s Totally True (And Totally Silly) Bedtime Stories Categories: Bedtime Story, Collection, Fiction, For Children Author: Michael Rosen Narrator: Michael Rosen Publisher: Wren & Rook Release date: 10-24-2024 Language: English

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/112545 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of This World Author: Michael Rosen Narrator: Michael Rosen Format: mp3 Length: 1 hr and 37 mins Release date: 08-29-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Poetry & Nursery Rhymes Publisher's Summary: What would it be like to live in the future? Or underwater? What would you do if you could go back in time? Or be a cat? Or a blood cell? What would happen if a monster ate every letter of the alphabet? In this extraordinary collection of brand new poems, beloved writer and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen will make you laugh, make you smile, make you think, and take you out of this world. Beautifully illustrated throughout by acclaimed artist Ed Vere, this is a book to treasure and share – a perfect introduction to poetry for readers of all ages.

In this 'Commission Conversation' Geoff Barton, Chair of the Commission on the Future of Oracy Education in England, talks to Michael Rosen about...talk, including his own family history, how children talk about books and the way teachers use talk in the classroom. Michael Rosen is Professor of Children's Literature. Since the late 1960s, Michael Rosen has been writing books, articles, plays and various kinds of scripts; performing poetry for audiences of all ages; and broadcasting on literature related subjects on radio and TV. From 2007-2009 he was Children's Laureate.

Story-telling using your own WW2 family history for demonstrating the theme on Fragility of Freedom to be used by a DRAMA group to perform at HMD which can be rehearsed using our recording of your words A family Drama about Fragility of Freedom by Michael Rosen Scene one Home at Michael Rosen’s house 1950s Father (Harold) Mother (Connie) Brian (older) Michael (younger) Eating meal Narrator Pinner in north-west London It’s the 1950s This is the Rosen family: father Harold, mother, Connie, two sons, Brian and Michael Michael: I love raisins. Brian : We noticed. Leave some for me. Connie : Who’s going to clear the table? Harold : (looks up from paper): You know I had two uncles living in France before the war. They weren’t there at the end. Brian : What happened to them? Harold : I don’t know. They died in the camps I suppose. There’s no way of finding out. Connie : Don’t look like that. There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s happened and that’s it. Michael : What camps? What do you mean? Connie : Another time, Harold. Michael (to Brian) (whispering) What camps? Brian : Later. Scene 2 Narrator : 50 years later: Michael is on the phone with his second cousin Teddy in America: Michael : Yes I can hear you. Say that again, who are the letters from? Teddy : Two are from Stella Rosen…wait a minute…she’s our great-aunt. Your father and my father’s aunt. And two are from Oscar and he’s our great-uncle, your father and my father’s uncle. Michael : Okayyyy. Teddy : Don’t you see? These are the last letters they ever wrote. Michael : Where are they writing from? Teddy : Stella is writing from Poland. Oscar is writing from France. Michael : When? Teddy : 1941., Michael: O my god…what are they saying. Teddy : OK, Stella in Poland is pleading with my grandfather to take her son in. To the States. It’s his only hope of survival. Michael : And Oscar in France? Teddy : The net is closing in there too. Michael : Is there an address on the letters? Teddy : I’ll screenshot them and send them to you. I just had to tell you the moment I saw them. Michael : Where have they been? Teddy : Hidden in my mother’s brother’s files somewhere. They’ve only come to light since he died. Scene 3 Michael : So the Nazis wanted to create a new super race. A pure race. And to do that they thought they would wipe out all the Jews. Exterminate them. Millions of them. Millions of us. And amongst all those millions, there was my father’s uncles and aunts in France and Poland. But how did they do it? Narrator : You’ll have to do some research. Michael : I will. I will. Scene 4 (with computer) Michael : (As he speaks these lines, Oscar and Rachel mime what he is relating) So Oscar is married to Rachel. Hmm my father didn’t know that. So in 1941 they’re in Niort, in north-west France, before the war they had been running a clock-menders shop but now all they can do is sell second-hand clothes. The govt has taken nearly all their savings and says that they’ve got to wear yellow stars with the word Jew on them. And they have to put a sign on their market stall saying ‘Jewish business’

How do you find joy in the aftermath of tragedy or immense adversity? Celebrated poet, author, professor and broadcaster, Michael Rosen has had to learn to do just that after his son passed away suddenly from meningitis aged 18. Michael himself also came close to losing his own life twice, the second time to Covid in 2020. Despite this, in 2023, he was awarded the prestigious PEN Pinter Prize for his ‘ability to address the most serious matters of life in a spirit of joy, humour, and hope.’ Michael has been involved in writing over 140 books, including the beloved, award winning children’s classic ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. His latest book is ‘Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it.’ For Joy Month on Changes, Michael discusses how play, absurdity and curiosity all play a part in finding joy, the duality of joy and grief and shares why he thinks everyone can use writing to help them have a more joyful existence. It’s a beautiful episode and an important reflection on joy. The paperback for ‘Getting Better’ is out on 8th Feb. You can pre order it here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447363/getting-better-by-rosen-michael/9781529148909 GET IN TOUCH Contact us at changespod@gmail.com with your emails and voice notes. Changes is a deaf friendly podcast, transcripts can be accessed here: https://www.anniemacmanus.com/changes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author, poet and performer Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved and most prolific children’s writers, having published hundreds of books over nearly fifty years, including his much-loved We’re Going On Bear Hunt, the story of an exciting family outing, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. As a broadcaster he is well known to Radio 4 listeners as the host of Word of Mouth. He was appointed as Children’s Laureate in 2007 and was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2023, the citation noting his “ability to address the most serious matters of life in a spirit of joy, humour and hope”. In conversation with John Wilson, Michael recalls the early influence of his parents, who were both active members of the British Communist Party, and the many books that lined the walls of the Rosen family home. He chooses, as a key cultural inspiration, a reproduction of a 16th century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder called Netherlandish Proverbs. Depicting ordinary people in various comic situations which represented well-known proverbs of the day, it captured the imagination of young Michael and his friends. He reveals how he started writing his own poetry in response to works by Gerard Manley Hopkins and D H Lawrence whilst at school, and remembers how We’re Going On A Bear Hunt was inspired by various folk tales from around the world. Michael also discusses the impact on his work of the death of his son Eddie at the age of 18 in 1999, and in discovering more about the fate of Jewish family members during the Holocaust. Producer: Edwina Pitman

Send us Fan Mail It's National Treasure Day here in 'The Good Listening To Show' as we welcome the incomparable, the legendary, the warm & wonderful Children's Author & Poet, Mr "Chocolate Cake" himself, Michael Rosen! Or as his globally renowned viral Meme would exclaim "Nice!" (Just Google 'Michael Rosen , Chocolate Cake & Meme' and all will become clear!) With his Willy-Wonka-esque-ex-chocolate-factory office for his 'Clearing' (how perfect!), Michael welcomes us warmly into his world and into his glorious mindscape, as we riff together on a whole array of profound and poignant stories. You can also Watch/Listen to Michael's episode here: https://vimeo.com/chrisgrimes/michaelrosen Described as “an optimistic nihilist” by his graduate daughter Elsie, Michael Rosen is a performance poet, professional broadcaster and abundant author of literally scores of different books, mostly for children but many for adult readers also, with nearly 200 books and 130 million YouTube hits to his name. Above all, he is an extraordinary survivor. Aged 20, his latent hypothyroidism remained undetected for a potentially deadly decade. In his seventies, the treatment of his severe Covid required a medically induced coma, which in practice kept him unconscious in Intensive Care for 40 days - like a latter day Lazarus in his clinical cave. Now Michael Rosen has less than perfect hearing in one ear and less than perfect vision in one eye. Michael Rosen’s parents were both teachers. They spoke Yiddish as well as English and lived quite happily and quite colourfully in a flat above a shop in Pinner. Michael recently collected a nodular pebble from the now largely tarmac area behind the shop to remind him of his early childhood. In those days, his very bright older brother Brian, now a distinguished palaeontologist, took it on himself to teach young ‘Mick’ the basics of calculus or whatever he, Brian, was being taught at school. Michael Rosen was ‘porous’, he says, from an early age! In an era of dip pens, inkwells & blotting paper, a teacher called Mr Brown arrived from Manchester - in suede shoes! Thanks to this one and only Barry Brown, young Mick was soon inspired by plays and playwrights. He appeared on stage whenever he was offered a part, however minor and later the now published author Michael went on to write some plays of his own! On a darker note, Michael’s own teenage son Eddie died one April night, suddenly and shockingly, albeit thank goodness, painlessly. Every year Michael and his now extended family commemorate Eddie’s premature death and celebrate his short life over a lunch. Death may not have worn ‘creaky boots’ but the Rosens can raise a glass and a smile regularly to remember the one they all lost so unexpectedly… One of Michael Rosen’s earliest Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'. If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website. Show Website: https://www.thegoodlisteningtoshow.com You can email me about the Show: chris@secondcurve.uk Twitter thatchrisgrimes LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-grimes-actor-broadcaster-facilitator-coach/ FaceBook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/842056403204860 Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW wherever you get your Podcasts :) Thanks for listening!

In this final episode of the season, recorded in February 2023, I'm joined by the beloved poet and author Michael Rosen. Known equally for humorous children's verse and his poetry and prose for adults, Michael's books for kids include We're Going on a Bear Hunt , Chocolate Cake , Michael Rosen's Sad Book and Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots . He's also written a number of more grown-up books, including Many Different Kinds of Love and the memoir Getting Better , about healing and recovery. In recent years he's written and spoken about his experience of spending seven weeks in intensive care with Covid-19, at the peak of the pandemic. In this conversation, we talk about how writing can help us after trauma; how performing poetry for children shaped his work; and how plain, understated language can express great emotion. Browse Michael's books in the In Writing bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/in-writing Visit his YouTube channel for kids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7D-mXO4kk-XWvH6lBXdrPw Watch the short film Many Different Kinds of Love : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsrSN-OCk8w Listen to Word of Mouth , hosted by Michael, on BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz Subscribe to the In Writing newsletter and leave your questions about the podcast in the comments, and I'll do my best to answer them: https://inwriting.substack.com/ This season of In Writing is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative. Use code INWRITING20 for £20 off one of their four, five, six, or ten-week online writing courses. Visit https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more.