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Centrally Heated Knickers

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141388960

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 117g

  • RRP: £6.99

Centrally Heated Knickers

Discover the weird and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen.

  • Imprint: Puffin

  • ISBN: 9780141388960

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 117g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • 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 2007-2009

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About the Author

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is one of the best known figures, not only in the children's book world but also the British arts scene. His first book of children's poems was published in 1974, and he has gone on to write numerous and award-winning children's books such as Quick, Let's get Out of Here, We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake. Alongside this he performs, teaches, lectures, presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 and reviews books for the Guardian. He was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, and founded the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2008 as part of his laureateship to honour books that make children laugh!

Michael Rosen

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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