Centrally Heated Knickers (Puffin Poetry)
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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 20072009 )
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 20072009 )
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Hail! Hail!
I come from another
galaxy.
Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 2007 - 2009.
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46 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I realised Michael Rosen was an outstanding person when I met him myself (he came to visit my junior school). He seemed very funny and up-beat. He writes humourous poems, as you can tell by the title of the book 'Centrally Heated Knickers'. He writes a lot about his childhood, and in this book his choice of subjects are really strange. He writes about cool buggies, in 'Boogy Woogy Buggy', saucepans, in 'Woolly Saucepan?', cow fashion in a poem called 'Cow Shoes' and even, in every book, 'granma's hands' (but not literally!). You might say the things he writes about are weird, but the poems are really imaginative and very funny. They are also quite different to everyday poetry, for example in 'Some Advice For You If You're Ever Thinking Of Walking Accross a Very Old Iron Bridge' the title is longer than the poem itself! I didn't really like poetry all that much but this book changed my mind. Its really funny and even though its written mainly for 7 to 11 year olds like me, it made my mum and my 17 year old sister laugh. It convinced me to read more of his books, such as 'You Can't Catch Me', and his 'Book of very silly poems', both as equally weird and funny as this one. Once I picked up this book, I truly couldn't put it down-I really recommend it to anyone with a sense of humour, as it's guaranteed to make you laugh.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Probably the most useful poetry book for a supply teacher to keep in their bag. Plenty of cross curricula links and laughs.
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I always enjoy Michael Rosen books and the children in my class fall about laughing and ask for poems to be read over and over again. Maybe it is not quite as good as "Quick, let's get out of here" but still worth having.
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Another cracking book
My kids loved the book.........and I loved the thought of centrally heated knickers.........mmmm...........one for Dragons Den maybe??
Published 22 months ago by FLB
Poetry
Thought this would be a side splitter but was disappointed, chn didn't find it amusing either.
Published 23 months ago by Mrs. Michelle Chippendale
Poems about science - great
Have used this book in KS1 - great for cross-curricular activities. Children thought the poems were great.
Published on 21 Mar 2010 by J. E. Brown
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