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Why I Play Poetry | Christ Church Primary| Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen

Using Michael Rosen's poems as a model, thousands of children across the country are writing their own ideas about the importance of play. In this poem, the children from Christ Church think about the way they choose to play.

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Who is 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

Going to schools, libraries and theatres and performing the poems in my books

Helping children write poems and stories

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

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.

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