Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Jabberwocky | CLASSIC | Lewis Caroll - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Jabberwocky | CLASSIC | Lewis Caroll - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen Michael Rosen reads a great nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll with lots of invented words in it. "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
My Running Shoes | POEM
My Running Shoes | POEM Poem written and performed by Michael Rosen.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
A Word | POEM
A Word | POEM From Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots.
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Herman Beavers - 'Requiem' (for Gwendolyn Brooks)
Herman Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989. Professor Beavers has a joint appointment in the Department of Africana Studies and teaches courses in African American and American literature, including courses on Southern Modernism, 20th...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
On The Move Again | POEM
On The Move Again | POEM We're always moving, moving, moving You know You gotta go. No time to grieve You just gotta leave. Get away from the pain On the move again. You gotta move it To prove it. Prove it To move it. Take the train....
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Other Day I Met a Bear | SONG | Sonsense Nongs
The Other Day I Met a Bear | SONG | Sonsense Nongs Song performed by Michael Rosen Michael Rosen shows once again why he's known for being able to tune into exactly the kind of humour that makes children fall about with laughter.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Custard's Last Stand | Part 4 | STORY | NASTY
Custard's Last Stand | Part 4 | STORY | NASTY Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube.
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Love and Time: The Sun Rising
Playing on the tradition of the interrupted lovers (who in this case are interrupted by the sun), Donne creates a metaphor that stretches the length of the poem. Stay tuned for a reading, summary, and analysis of one of my all time...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Chapter 9 | You're Thinking About Tomatoes | STORY
You're Thinking About Tomatoes - Chapter 9 Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen. A sequel to the very popular ‘You're Thinking About Doughnuts’. Frank is back among the ruins of the past again, this time on a school trip to a...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Eddie and the Shreddies | POEM
Eddie and the Shreddies | POEM Poem performed by Michael Rosen. From: Quick Lets Get Out of Here Published by: Puffin
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Lynn Marie Houston - 'My Father Sends Me a Card That Says You Are So Loved'
Lynn Marie Houston holds a Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University and an MFA from Southern Connecticut State University. A Fulbright scholar (Switzerland 1994-1998), she has also held writing residencies at the Vermont Studio...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
When We Had Ice Cream - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen performs the poem When We Had Ice Cream. This poem comes from ‘Selected Poems’ (Penguin Books).
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Vivian Shipley - 'Sourdough'
Vivian Shipley is the author of several books of poetry, including All of Your Messages Have Been Erased (Southeastern Louisiana University Press, 2010), Greatest Hits: 1974–2010 (Pudding House Press, 2010), and Hardboot: Poems, New &...
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Joe Weil - 'Painting the Christmas Trees'
Joe Weil is an assistant professor at Binghamton University. His reviews, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in Paterson Literary review, The Literati Quarterly, Rattle, Barnstorm, Blue Collar Review, Lips, The Boston Review,...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Puzzle 1 - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Puzzle 1 - Read by Michael Rosen from The Hypnotiser
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Perfecting Poetry: Rosemary Dobson - Summer's End - 2. Picnic
Discover how Dobson uses the imagery of a picnic to explore the ephemerality of youth.
An autumnal bush scene sets the stage for a picnic. Sit with the speaker as she stews over the past while her billy threatens to bubble over! Tongues...
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Ginny Lowe Connors - 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Classroom'
Ginny Lowe Connors’ chapbook, Under the Porch (Hill-Stead Museum, 2010) won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. She’s published several poetry collections, including Barbarians in the Kitchen (Antrim House Books, 2005) and The Unparalleled...
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Richard Blanco - "El Americano in the Mirror"
Richard Blanco’s mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of the family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid where he was born. Forty-five days later, the family immigrated once more to New York City, and eventually settled in Miami....
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Susanna's A Funiful Cow | SONG | Sonsense Nongs
Susanna's A Funiful Cow | SONG | Sonsense Nongs Performed by Michael Rosen Michael Rosen shows once again why he's known for being able to tune into exactly the kind of humour that makes children fall about with laughter.
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Biographical Fallacy: Funeral Blues
Four Weddings and a Funeral made this poem THE funeral poem. But did Auden actually want it to be sad? And does that actually matter? We'll explore that question in our reading, summary, and analysis of W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues."
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
The Bakerloo Flea | Part 1 | STORY | NASTY
The Bakerloo Flea | Part 1 | STORY | NASTY Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Goldfish - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Goldfish - Read by Michael Rosen from The Hypnotiser
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The Poetic Tragedy of Shergar: A Tale of Loss and Legacy
This haunting and evocative poem weaves together the mysterious disappearance of the legendary racehorse Shergar with the author's personal memories of loss and transition. Through vivid imagery and poignant reflections, the poet...
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Newcomers | POEM
Newcomers | POEM Michael Rosen reads his poem.