He regularly performs his poetry in schools, and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 as a regular presenter. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience.

Once your child has discovered a new book we invite them to create their own online Reading Den and fill a bookshelf of their own.contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

His first degree in English Literature and Language was from Wadham College, Oxford and he went on to study for an MA at the University of Reading and a PhD at the former University of North London, now London Metropolitan. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. There is a girl who asked her mum for a dog but she got a fish so she names him fluff hoping he would grow fur and legs.Some of the books in this set have less text and more pictures and progress too more text per page and slightly less pictures. Determined not to give up on her dream of a puppy that could be taught lots of fun tricks, Elvie embarks on a training regime for Fluff that includes fetching, sitting and jumping. The stories are funny and would be just as suitable for a parent to read to their child, chapter by chapter , or to help encourage reluctant readers to pick out words they recognise and then have the page read to then.

Before long, she discovers that Fluff has an amazing talent - but is it enough to win a talent show? He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised and teaches critical approaches to reading on an MA in Children’s Literature, having done the same at Birkbeck, University of London. Perfect for every child who’s just beginning to read alone, this hilarious tale is a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune and the possible resulting disasters. As ever, former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen tells a delightfully relatable story – this time, to kids who are desperate for a pet.Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.