Michael Rosen's Pocket Shakespeare: A Beginner's Guide to the Best Bits of the Bard

About the author

Michael Rosen is a multi-award-winning poet, a popular radio broadcaster, distinguished critic and academic, and one of the most popular authors for children. He has written over 200 books in a career spanning over five decades, including the internationally bestselling We're Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. His poems, about family life, childhood and a good deal of silliness, have reached millions through his exuberant online readings. Michael was the Children’s Laureate from 2007 to 2009, and is now Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.Chris Riddell is one of the country's finest children's book illustrators, and was Children's Laureate from 2015–17. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal three times – for Pirate Diary, Gulliver's Travels and The Sleeper and the Spindle. He is a political cartoonist for the Observer and has collaborated with Paul Stewart on the extremely popular Edge Chronicles and Muddle Earth series. In recent years he has had success writing and illustrating his own books, including the Ottoline stories and Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse, which won a Costa Book Award – and he illustrated J.K. Rowling's Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rosen
• Assisted by: Riddell Chris (Illustration)
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9781529532845
• ISBN: 978-1-5295-3284-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Europe, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Drama, JUVENILE FICTION / Performing Arts / Theater & Musicals, Anthologies (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Anthologies, Drama & performing (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Performing Arts / Theater & Musicals, JUVENILE FICTION / Poetry, Literature, books & writers (Children's/Teenage)