Michael Rosen is simply a genius. How can he access so perfectly what it feels like to be a child? If ever I feel that poets are a bit self-important, all I have to do is read something by Michael Rosen and my wonder at a man's creativity returns. I took it out of the library, stuck on the CD while the kids read along, and soon they were all able to recite it pretty much verbatim - including the English accent of the reader (that would be Michael)! (We're Irish!) We had to give it back to the library eventually but I am buying a copy for them. "Keith's Cupboard" - sometimes I do the voice of Keith's Mum for their amusement (it's the way she says "Keith! Keith!" that we love); then there's the one about the fly in the digital watch, and of course the meditative one about sucking on the sponge in the bathroom whilst daydreaming...And that's all before we've mentioned Quentin Blake's perfect, and perfectly inspired drawings. It's two years now since we borrowed it from the library (don't worry, we gave it back ages ago) and the kids can still recite half of the poems by heart, spontaneously. They are 21, 19 and 17 (joke)- they're now 11, 9 and nearly 7. Buy it.