Michael Rosen

British children's author and poet (born 1946)

Michael Rosen was born on 7 May 1946 in Harrow. Official accounts: X (Twitter), YouTube, Goodreads and Google Scholar.

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Michael Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author and poet from Harrow. He writes children's literature and poetry, and he was Children's Laureate in 2007. His other awards include the Nestlé Children's Book Prize in 1989 and the Eleanor Farjeon Award in 1997. His YouTube channel, Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen, features poems and stories for children and had about 825,000 subscribers in May 2025.

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