Michael Rosen Tour

May 2008

Watch highlights of the Michael Rosen tour here 

From 12th to 16th May Michael Rosen toured around Scotland visiting Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness and entertained almost 3000 children.

From over 1000 entries Michael selected one winner from each city, to read these poems click here.

Michael also wrote an exclusive new poem for the tour. Click the link to have a read!

Michael Rosen is one of the UK's finest poets for children and has been instrumental in opening up children's access to poetry in ordinary language that children actually use. He is the author of many collections of poems for children including Quick, Let's Get Out of Here and Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems. He was named as the 2007-2009 Children's Laureate this year, in recognition of his substantial contribution to children's literature.

Teaching resources - for guidance and ideas on working with five of Michael Rosen's poems, download teaching resources here. 

If you want to find out more about Michael, watch some videos of Michael or read some more of his poems, visit:

www.michaelrosen.co.uk

Michael Rosen, meets the winners (left) of the poetry competition in Edinburgh after his first performance of the week (right) 

Michael's humorous tales of his childhood thrill the pupils in Glasgow, "bendy, bendy?"

Next stop on the tour is Dundee, where he took to the stage with Matthew Fitt and Diana Hendry (above left). He also got to meet one of his heroes, Desperate Dan!

The Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen, where Michael enthralled more than 800 children!

Michael stops to get his picture taken with an entire school (above) in Inverness!

The stunning Eden Court Theatre was the last venue that we took Michael too and he was delighted with the audience and the theatre.

Even the Scottish Book Trust staff got involved in the fun while on tour, "The NOISE!"

To read Michael's statement following on from the article in the Scottish Sunday Times, click here.