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  • Published: 7 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141927442
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Centrally Heated Knickers




Hail! Hail!

I come from another

galaxy.

Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 2007 - 2009.

  • Published: 7 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141927442
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

About the author

Harry Horse

Harry Horse was born in Coventry. He wrote and illustrated several children's books - including The Last Polar Bears and The Ogopogo, which won the Scottish Arts Council Writers' Award. He was well-known as a political cartoonist and produced cartoons for the New Yorker, The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman. Harry died in 2007.

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Praise for Centrally Heated Knickers

Michael Rosen is a poet with a superb ear for the rhythms of language

Guardian

One of our most popular writers – the champion for every bored, overdrilled, tested-to-tears pupil in the land

The Times

I think poetry for children needs to be saved from the cold dissection of right and wrong answers and put back into rooms and halls full of wonder, compassion, haunting, laughter, music and rhythm. We need to hear its many cultures, many voices, many sounds. This is about wide and diverse participation. Diverse verse for all!

Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 20072009