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Jun 18 2007

Michael Rosen new children's laureate

Michael Rosen has been chosen as the new British Children's Laureate and it looks as if he will be a strong advocate for reading books for pleasure. In one article in The Guardian he says he utterly rejects and resents 'the notion that you can teach reading without books'. He also poses the question: 'Have educationalist taken all the fun out of poetry?' Read what Michael Rosen has to say in The Guardian.