Michael Rosen

Leaving toy school for his new home, Bob the Bear thinks he knows all there is to being loved and cuddled. But, in the end, it is a surprising and unusual talent that helps him most of all!

When Terri-Lee goes to the pet-shop she thinks she'll be choosing a dog - she doesn't expect the dog to be choosing her! But Crumble is no ordinary pet and he's got a few questions to ask: How many walks will you take me on? Do you like to dance? Will you tickle me? I like that a lot. Will Terri-Lee's dance moves and answers be enough to convince Crumble that she could be his owner?

Shnipp the dog loves to play fetch with Julie and Lara in the park, but she doesn't love their annoying laughs. So one day she decides to run off. It's not long before Shnipp finds a new life with Bessie the Bagel Lady, eating delicious bagels every day. But when she decides to finally head home, she discovers things aren't exactly the same as when she left.

Till Owlyglass (Till Eulenspiegel) is a boy who was special from the day he was baptised three times. But not in a good way. Not in a way his parents liked. He was always in trouble for his rudeness and practical jokes, and grew up to be the most outrageous trickster in Germany. Everyone told stories about him - and they still do five centuries later. In this wickedly funny book, Michael Rosen retells the best of these traditional German tales, with...

Wolfman has escaped! He is raging and rampaging around town, chewing up paving slabs and biting trees and generally being very terrifying indeed! Whatever can Wolfman want and who will be brave enough to ask?

The way we've been taught excludes or limits all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture. From cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to model-making, from playing Top Trumps to arguing with TV programmes, from collecting leaves to playing 'Who am I?', Michael Rosen shows how to use everything around you to learn more - and how enjoyable and satisfying it can be.

My oh my, a tiny little fly is buzzing all around, a great big elephant, a great big hippo, a great big tiger, too! With deceptively simple words and pictures, Michael Rosen and Kevin Waldron conjure a comedy to delight readers of all sizes.

A moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, 'Carrying the Elephant', 'This is Not My Nose' and 'In the Colonie'. Rosen covers a vast terrain, collating vivid and fragmented memories from various stages of his life.