Michael Rosen's A-Z by Rosen, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover About the Author Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Foreword A to Z

Spellbound Chick Pea Pie The Soldiers Came Laughter Rap in Plastic Town The Mighty Slide

I Speak the Language GRRRR Jamaican Song Okay, Brown Girl, Okay Air Raids 1942 Lost Gloves In Daylight Strange Elephant

Tree What Can You Do With a Football? The Cancan Soft as the Blanket Waht? Brothers Let No one Steal Your Dreams Our Teacher is a Tongue Twister

Evening Shifts ‘M’ First Gift The Day the Marks Made Sense If You Were a Carrot Mushrooms Rooty Tooty Your Dresses

Nathaniel Finding Out About the Family

Dino’s Café The Twins Immigration Trap Aunty Joan On Port Meadow Insect Day The Pool Attack of the Mutant Mangos: A Fruit Salad Ballad of Baddies

The Powder Monkey Limpet The Living Room White Ones

The World is a Box Early Bird Blues My Dad’s Book South to North; 1965 The Painting Lesson Favouritism Did I, Dad? Listen What Is the Pond Doing? The Spare Room Rain Falls Down Cow in the Cornflakes Arundel Swimming Pool Sound Count Down

I am a poet and here’s my poem:

Poem for a Town Child A Silly Song

Marbles Potions Valentine The Angler’s Song

First Fire Colour Outside the Lines My Mate Darren Flashback in Winter Light

How Was School? The Wicked Stepmother Me The Doll’s House Cutting My Fingernails An Interesting Fact About One of My Relatives The Christmas Shed The Boneyard Rap The Woman of Water Yes My Hat! I Wanna Be a Star The Shoes The Blackout Spider-swallowing Shopping Trolley

Sea-Rock My Gran Visits England Goodwin Sands Winter

Empty House Bedmobile

Geography Lesson The Boy Who Broke Things School Trip Late Home Magpie Where’s Nellie?

Q here for the poet.

Invaders Dazzledance Noises in the Night Day-old Stubble The Difference The Noise Jellyfish Fuss Detention Tension (a rap)

The Jealous Ones How a Poem Arrives There’ll Be a Jazz Band The Girls in my Class Reincarnation Fifteen Ways of Looking at a Ladybird Don’t You Like Me? Sometimish Sea

Sea Monsters Yorkshire Day

U are a poet and here is your poem:

V is the Ventriloquist poet.

One Boy Stood in the Field Bobby’s Bubble Gum The Death of a Bully My Cat Just Saw a Ghost Dave Dirt Was on the 259 The Magic Box

X marks the spot

Y is a poet.

People Need People I De Rap Guy

Acknowledgements Index of First Lines