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Michael Rosen.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1946

Michael Rosen: canonical British children's author and poet behind We're Going on a Bear Hunt (with Helen Oxenbury) and decades of children's poetry — Children's Laureate 2007–2009.

Michael Rosen is a British author born in 1946, one of the defining children's writers in the UK for the last fifty years, particularly through poetry and read-aloud picture books. Best known to picture-book readers as the writer of We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), one of the most-read-aloud picture books in English-language history, plus his children's poetry collections (Quick, Let's Get Out of Here, Even My Ears Are Smiling). Rosen was Children's Laureate 2007–2009. He has also written non-fiction for children, memoir for adults, and is a prominent public voice on education and on his own experience of long-term Covid. A core canonical British children's poet and picture-book author.