Michael Rosen

My first book for children was called Mind Your Own Business and it came out in 1974. Quentin Blake did wonderful line drawings for it. Ever since then, I’ve been doing these things: writing books writing articles for newspapers and magazines coming to schools, libraries and theatres and performing the poems in my books – they’re like shows really helping children in schools write poems and stories and other kinds of writing too making radio programmes, mostly about words, language or books appearing on TV, either reading books, or talking about books teaching at universities about children’s literature running workshops for teachers about poetry, reading, writing of all kinds, ‘reading for pleasure’ across whole school communities In any week, I might be doing all of these things! To tell the truth, I don’t really know what I’m doing tomorrow, unless I look in my diary to see.