Peas on Your Knees
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Packed with humor and heart, showcasing top illustrators, and joyfully celebrating a life well lived, this ultimate gift collection of Michael Rosen’s poems marks the occasion of the beloved poet and author’s eightieth birthday. Divided into sections including Food, Childhood, Brothers, School, Being a Dad, and Being Silly–each illustrated in full color by a different artist, including Michael Rosen’s longtime collaborator Quentin Blake–Peas on Your Knees is a poet’s playful ode to life itself. In a career spanning five decades, with more than two hundred books to his credit, including the international bestseller We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and Oh Dear, Look What I Got!, both illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, Michael Rosen’s warmth, wit, and unflinching honesty have delighted generations of readers. Whether you’re a confirmed fan or discovering his child-centric genius for the first time, each of these thirty-five poems–some profound, others silly, many profoundly silly–is a little window into everyday life, whether the subject is forbidden chocolate cake or getting into REALLY BIG TROUBLE with a sibling. Featuring an introduction by Joseph Coelho, OBE, this intimate collection is a loving tribute to the “happy, sad, bizarre, and ridiculous nature of life.”
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Michael Rosen is the best-selling and popular author of A Great Big Cuddle: Poems for the Very Young, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, Tiny Little Fly, Bananas in My Ears, and many other books and poetry collections for children. A former British Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen lives in London.
Yasmeen Ismail is a London-based, award-winning animator and illustrator. She is currently working on several picture books for publishers in the US and the UK, including Time for Bed Fred. Visit her at YasmeenIsmail.co.uk.
Polly Dunbar is the author-illustrator of numerous picture books, including Penguin, Arthur’s Dream Boat, Hello Tilly, Pretty Pru, and Good Night, Tiptoe. She is also the illustrator of Shoe Baby by Joyce Dunbar, Here’s a Little Poem by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters, and My Dad’s a Birdman by David Almond. She lives in England.
Sir Quentin Blake, the first-ever Children’s Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated nearly 300 books, including most of Roald Dahl’s children’s books. He lives in London.
Illustrator and photographer Ken Wilson-Max lives and works in London, but his illustrations are known and loved throughout the world. He is the author and illustrator of his own books, such as Big Silver Space Shuttle and Halala Means Welcome: A Book of Zulu Words.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781536250237
- Publication Date
- February 16, 2027
- Publisher
- Templar
- Page Count
- 128
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
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