Author: Michael RosenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781562941383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Combines nonsense poems and fanciful illustrations with objects representing each letter of the alphabet.
Michael Rosen's ABC
Author: Michael RosenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781562941383
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Combines nonsense poems and fanciful illustrations with objects representing each letter of the alphabet.
Michael Rosen's A-Z
Author: Michael RosenPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141923784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
From Agard to Zephaniah, the very best of children's poetry from the very best of children's poets appears in this wonderful and exciting anthology edited by Michael Rosen, the Children's Laureate. Coinciding with his laureateship and a very welcome public promotion of the need for children's poetry in our education system, this future classic for Puffin will delight readers young and old, and make the perfect gift.
A Great Big Cuddle
Author: Michael RosenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406373462
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Synopsis coming soon.......
Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems
Author: Michael RosenPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140371370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A lively, funny anthology of nonsense verse, including some new poems by Michael Rosen. Age 8+ 64 pages
Voyage of the Damned
Author: Gordon ThomasPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497658950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times). On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews—some had already been in concentration camps—who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun. Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba. In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command’s ulterior motive in granting permission for the “mission of mercy;” the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn’t. In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: “An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the SS St. Louis becomes a symbol of the SS Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.”
Michael Rosen's ABC
Author: Michael RosenPublisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9780761301271
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Combines nonsense poems and fanciful illustrations with objects representing each letter of the alphabet.
Along Came a Different
Author: Tom McLaughlinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408888939
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Reds love being red. Yellows love being yellow. And Blues love being blue. The problem is that they just don't like each other. But one day, along comes a different colour who likes Reds, Yellows and Blues, and suddenly everything starts to change. Maybe being different doesn't mean you can't be friends ... A very special picture book that supports the adage that there is more that unites us than divides us. Along Came a Different just goes to show how much better we can all be when we come together to find common ground as friends. Every bookshelf should have a copy.
Alphabetical
Author: Michael RosenPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848548877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .
Author: Michael Rosen
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