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Bah! Humbug! Award-winning author/illustrator

by Michael Rosen (author) and Tony Ross (illustrator)

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Product description

Utterly heartwarming! A seasonal classic brought up to date by two giants of kids’ fiction. Can a school play of A Christmas Carol help Harry’s dad to find the spirit of Christmas? Harry Gruber is feeling pretty nervous – and not just because he’s Scrooge in his school’s Christmas play. What’s really got him worried is that his very busy father is coming to watch the performance. Harry’s pretty sure Dad won’t even stay till the curtain goes up. He’ll have to shoot off to take care of business – like always. Will the play’s message of Christmas cheer reach his father’s distracted heart?

A moving new take on Charles Dickens’ festive classic

Written by Michael Rosen, with pictures by Tony Ross

A heartwarming tale of family and the power of love

Frames the original narrative with a new modern one

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407185170

Date published

October 5th, 2017

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176 pages

Condition

New

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Reading for Pleasure Ages 9-13 Pack x 8

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Author/Illustrator

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born into a London Jewish family, the son of two distinguished educators – Connie and Harold Rosen. Michael’s childhood was rich in books, stories and conversation.

Michael attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School for a year but transferred to Wadham College, Oxford to study English Literature. At Oxford, he started to realise his ambition of acting (as well as writing and directing). Michael still says that if he wasn’t a poet, he’d like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is!

The narrowness of his course of study proved a source of dissatisfaction and Michael began looking outside his recommended reading to contemporary working, class ballads. He retains a passion for street rhymes, popular songs and folk stories.

Michael Rosen has been writing poetry since the age of 18. His first collection, Mind Your Own Business, was published in 1974. Although it was not planned as a collection for children, it appeared on Andre Deutsch’s children’s list. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience. It was just incredibly exhilarating.”

He quickly made a name for himself with his collections of humorous verse and picture books for children. He is described as one of the most significant figures in contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

Michael is now a poet, author and broadcaster, and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.

Tony Ross

Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. As well as his own books, he has illustrated books for authors such as Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger and Michael Palin.