Michael Rosen (writer)

Michael Rosen (2009)

Michael Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Pinner , Middlesex ) is a British children's author and BBC editor. He was named Children's Laureate 2007-2009.

Michael Rosen has already published 140 books.

Life

Rosen's father was stationed in the American Army in Germany at the time Rosen was born. After returning to England, he taught English to middle school. Rosen's mother retrained to be a primary school teacher when Rosen was just two years old.

Rosen grew up with a four-year-old brother whom he sees as a kind of third parent.

After leaving school, he studied medicine for a year and then switched to English. As during his school days, Rosen also used his free time during his studies to write texts and plays and to act.

During his student days, he was arrested twice for demonstrations. Once he demonstrated against the Vietnam War and once against an Oxford hairdresser who refused to do black hair. It was around this time that he wrote his first book Backbone , which was staged as a play at the Royal Court Theater in London.

After graduating, he started working for the BBC . First as a spokesperson for radio dramas and documentaries, then in a children's project called Playschool, and then he wrote a program for BBC Schools Televison called Sam on Boff's Island , which aimed to teach reading to young children in particular.

In 1974 he published his first children's book entitled Mind Your Own Business , which was illustrated by Quentin Blake .

Since then he has been writing books, newspaper and magazine articles, performing the poems from his books in schools, libraries or theaters, helping children to write poems and stories, making radio programs (mostly using words, language and books), and talking about TV programs Books or reads from them, teaches children's literature at universities and organizes workshops for teachers on poetry.

Memes

Rosen gained notoriety after his exclamation “Noice!” , Which appeared in his YouTube video Hot Food , became a popular internet meme .

The video comes from his series Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen on the YouTube channel of the same name and is about a family eating hot potatoes, told from the perspective of one of the family's children.

His videos are also very often parodied on the Internet, mostly through wild effects and edits ( YouTube shit ); not infrequently so that the parodies are no longer suitable for children. Rosen is aware of this and its popularity on the Internet and has also commented on it; he fears that children looking for his "real" videos will come across inappropriate content and that their parents will then think that Rosen is producing this content. He had also initially tried unsuccessfully to download such videos from YouTube.

Works

• Sad Book , illustrated by Quentin Blake (Eng. "My sad book")
  • Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver 2005
• We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Eng. "We're going on a bear hunt")
  • Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold 1989

Web links

• Michael Rosen official homepage (English)
• Literature by and about Michael Rosen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Michael Rosen at perlentaucher.de
• Short biography and list of works on the website of the British Council (English)
• artificedesign official YouTube channel (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Michael Rosen" . Children's Laureate (childrenslaureate.org.uk). Booktrust. (English)
2. ↑ Michael Rosen's Bibliography. In: Michael Rosen. July 29, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (UK English). 
3. ↑ About Michael Rosen. In: Michael Rosen. November 29, 2016, Retrieved May 7, 2020 (UK English). 
4. ↑ Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. Retrieved on May 7, 2020 (German). 
5. ↑ Michael Rosen discusses the poop debacle. Retrieved June 19, 2020 (English). 
6. ↑ MICHAEL ROSEN'S MESSAGE TO POOPERS! Retrieved June 19, 2020 (English).