20 Aug 2010 21:55:26
In the bookshops there is new book from children's writer, poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen. The books name is “The Books That Made Me”. He guides us through the rolling library bookcases in the former mayoral coachhouse that acts as his study, and reveals how a childhood of summer camps informed his reading.
He also explains why, in terms of the books he loves, he's "a rootless cosmopolitian", who gets as much pleasure from German expressionist plays and books of French history as from English Victorian novels. He tells how his favourite character from German children's literature, Till Eulenspiegel, inspired him to plunder folk stories for some of his own most famous books. And he describes how a recent encounter with a snake took him straight back to the old school poetry anthology in which he discovered the writing of DH Lawrence
In the bookshops there is new book from children's writer, poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen. The books name is “The Books That Made Me”. He guides us through the rolling library bookcases in the former mayoral coachhouse that acts as his study, and reveals how a childhood of summer camps informed his reading.
He also explains why, in terms of the books he loves, he's "a rootless cosmopolitian", who gets as much pleasure from German expressionist plays and books of French history as from English Victorian novels. He tells how his favourite character from German children's literature, Till Eulenspiegel, inspired him to plunder folk stories for some of his own most famous books. And he describes how a recent encounter with a snake took him straight back to the old school poetry anthology in which he discovered the writing of DH Lawrence
