"Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and held the honour until June 2009, when he was succeeded by Anthony Browne. Rosen signed off from the Laureateship with an article in ""The Guardian"", in which he said: ""Sometimes when I sit with children when they have the space to talk and write about things, I have the feeling that I am privileged to be the kind of person who is asked to be part of it"". In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Exeter. In January 2008, Rosen was presented with an honorary doctorate by"
"Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ""War Horse"" (1982). His work is noted for its ""magical storytelling"", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or World War I. Morpurgo became the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005. Morpurgo was born in 1943 as Michael Andrew Bridge; his biological father was actor Tony Van Bridge."
"Michael Rosen Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's novelist, poet, and the author of 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He has been a TV presenter and a political columnist. Rosen was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex, with roots in what is now Poland, Russia, and Romania and connections to the Arbeter Ring and the Bund. His father Harold (1919–2008) was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, but grew up in the East End of London from the age of two, when his mother left Harold's father"
"written by 38 authors. Morpurgo's story was published in the ""Water"" collection. In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Morpurgo, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 300+ works in 1,000+ publications in 25 languages and 55,000+ library holdings. Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ""War Horse"" (1982). His work is noted for its ""magical storytelling"", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for"
"Children's winner ""Mr Magnolia"" (Jonathan Cape, 1980), written and illustrated by Quentin Blake. Michael Morpurgo has won four Overall awards for ""Kensuke's Kingdom"" in 2000, ""Private Peaceful"" in 2004, ""Shadow"" in 2011 and ""An Eagle in the Snow"" in 2017. He has also won category awards for ""The Wreck of the Zanzibar"" in 1996 and ""Out of Ashes"" in 2002. Four other authors have won two Overall awards: J. K. Rowling won the Long Novel category four years in succession, 1998 to 2001, for the first four Harry Potter books. Red House Children's Book Award The Federation of Children's Book"
"Michael J. Rosen Michael J. Rosen (born September 20, 1954), is an American writer, illustrator, and editor whose 150+ books range from children's picture books to adult poetry and to novels, from cookbook collaboration with celebrity chefs to creating anthologies to benefit animal-welfare and childhood-hunger efforts. He has acted as editor for various humor anthologies, including three volumes of new contemporary humor, ""Mirth of a Nation."" Rosen was born in Columbus, Ohio, the eldest of Marvin and Nona Rosen's three children. He spent his childhood exploring the wilderness around the former pasture in which his parents had built their house"
"as the Children's Book Award. Its purpose has been ""to celebrate the books that children themselves love reading."" From 2001 to 2015 it was sponsored by the mail order bookshop Red House —a brand owned by bookselling company The Book People. The 2017 Overall Winner was from the Books for Younger Readers and was won by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman for ""An Eagle in the Snow"" published by Harper Collins. The 2017 winners were announced at an Award Ceremony held in London on Saturday 10 June 2017. The 2016 Overall Winner was from the Books for Younger Readers and"
"Michael Laurence Michael Laurence (24 November 1935 – 23 March 2015) was an Australian actor, producer and scriptwriter best known for creating ""Return to Eden"". He began his career as a child actor on Sydney radio, before winning a scholarship at 18 to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, before appearing in theatre productions, including everything from Shakespearean roles to musicals. He created, directed and starred in the Nine Network production ""The Godfathers"", which won the Logie Award for Best Comedy in 1971. He worked on the popular serial ""Number 96"", and other successful miniseries including the children's"
"by Books Illustrated Ltd in December 2007 and 2009 to celebrate the publication of ""The Snow Queen"" and ""The Little Mermaid"". His landscape artwork has been exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Pastel Society and New English Art Club annual exhibitions. Christian Birmingham Christian Birmingham is a British illustrator and artist who has worked with children's writers including the Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, on books including Whitbread Children's Book of the Year ""The Wreck of the Zanzibar"" and Smarties Prize winner ""The Butterfly Lion"". He was also shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and Kate Greenaway Medal for"
"Children's Laureate Children's Laureate is a position initially awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a ""writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field."" The post stemmed from a discussion between the (now deceased) Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and children's writer Michael Morpurgo. A panel of judges considers nominations from a range of organisations representing librarians, cand booksellers, including the International Board on Books for Young People. They also consider writers and illustrators nominated directly by children, who now vote online. The award is funded by several publishing industry and charity sector"
"Michael Rosen (rabbi) Michael ""Mickey"" Rosen (""Shmuel Meir ben HaRav Yaakov Kopul"", 21 January 1945–8 December 2008) was a British-born Israeli rabbi and founder of Yakar, an innovative Jewish learning community and synagogue. Michael Rosen was one of three sons of Rabbi Yaakov Kopul and Bella Rosen. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His thinking was strongly influenced by his father, who rejected fundamentalism and obscurantism and instead embraced secular wisdom while remaining committed to religious life. Rosen was first educated at Carmel College, the school his father had founded based on this philosophical orientation. He then continued his education"
"of Education, University of London, and in July 2011, honorary doctorate by the University of the West of England. Rosen was selected to be the guest director of the Brighton Festival in May 2013. Rosen has been married three times, is the father of five children, and has two stepchildren. Eddie (1980–1999), his second son, died at the age of 18 from meningitis, and his death was the inspiration for ""Michael Rosen's Sad Book"" published in 2004. Rosen lives in North London with his third wife, Emma-Louise Williams, and their two children. Michael Rosen Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May"
"Little Foxes Little Foxes is a book written by Michael Morpurgo in 1984. Billy Bunch is an orphan who has had many foster families which never worked out. He is currently living with a foster mother in the suburbs of a city. They don't get on well. At school Billy is not good at subjects, especially English (he cannot read out loud because he stutters). One night, while Billy tries to run away, he runs into the nearby abandoned land where there are the ruins of a monastery. There is plentiful wildlife living in this place that others call ""The"
"Karli and Jim Hagedorn, who had learned of Farms for City Children on a visit to the UK. Their charity's farm in Vermont was purchased in 1992. Farms for City Children Farms for City Children is a UK registered charity which aims to provide experience of farm and countryside life for inner-city children. In 1976 author Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Clare Morpurgo (the oldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books), established the charity Farms for City Children, with the primary aim of providing children from inner city areas with experience of the countryside. Clare Morpurgo"
"York Times"" called the book ""so finely done that the drawings and the story line compete for attention."" In 2013, Rosen was commissioned by the Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus to create a full-length play based on this work. Its world premier will be staged at the Center's theater in December, 2013. Michael J. Rosen has received numerous awards from a variety of sources. Some of his most noteworthy include the National Jewish Book Award for ""Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas"", the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Once Upon a World Book Award for ""A School"
"the Sea"". Hughes and another poet, Seán Rafferty, were influential in his career, with Hughes becoming a friend, mentor and neighbour. It was not until he was teaching in Kent that Morpurgo discovered his vocation in life, of which he later said ""I could see there was magic in it for them, and realized there was magic in it for me."" Morpurgo married Clare, eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books. In 1976 Michael and Clare established the charity Farms for City Children, with the primary aim of providing children from inner city areas with experience"
"age of 48, leaving behind his wife, Bella, three sons, Jeremy, Michael and David, and a baby daughter, Angela (Ayelet). All three sons became rabbis. In 1948 Rosen decided to leave the rabbinate to devote himself to the promotion of Jewish education. He and his wife, Bella, founded Carmel College an independent Jewish boarding school in Oxfordshire, UK. In 1979 Rabbi Rosen's second son, Rabbi Dr Michael (Mickey) Rosen, founded the Jewish educational organization, Yakar, in memory of his father. (YaKaR is both an acronym for Yaacov Kopul Rosen and means in Hebrew precious.) The stated goal of Yakar is"
"into young adulthood for both Billy and his beloved fox. Little Foxes Little Foxes is a book written by Michael Morpurgo in 1984. Billy Bunch is an orphan who has had many foster families which never worked out. He is currently living with a foster mother in the suburbs of a city. They don't get on well. At school Billy is not good at subjects, especially English (he cannot read out loud because he stutters). One night, while Billy tries to run away, he runs into the nearby abandoned land where there are the ruins of a monastery. There is"
"David M. Rosen David M. Rosen is an American anthropologist. Rosen holds a J.D. from Pace University School of Law and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois. He is Professor of Anthropology, at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He lived in Teaneck, New Jersey and now resides in Brooklyn. Rosen’s book, Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism, garnered considerable public attention. The book discusses three case studies: Jewish children fighting the Germans in World War II, child soldiers in Sierra Leone, and Palestinian child fighters both in the 1930s and 1940s and during the First"
"had three sons, Brian (b. 1942), Alan (1944–1945) and the poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen (b. 1946). Together Harold and Connie took part in the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, defending the East End against a march by the British Union of Fascists. Rosen studied English at University College, London, gaining his degree in 1940. Being an American citizen, he was not subject to UK conscription, and went into teaching, working in a number of schools. In 1945 he was drafted into the US Army and served in the education corps in Germany. After his discharge, Rosen took his"
"Christian Birmingham Christian Birmingham is a British illustrator and artist who has worked with children's writers including the Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, on books including Whitbread Children's Book of the Year ""The Wreck of the Zanzibar"" and Smarties Prize winner ""The Butterfly Lion"". He was also shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration. Birmingham graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1991 with a first-class honours degree in Graphic Design (illustration). He won his first book illustration contract soon after leaving college and has since worked with major British and American publishers on"
"1983, he became the literary director of the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio. During his near-twenty-year stay as literary director, Rosen was the editor for several compilations of James Thurber's writings; he also was involved in the creation of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Rosen has also ""taught in the Ohio Art Council Poetry-in-the-Schools Program and Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist-in-the-Schools Program, and has conducted over 500 young authors' conferences, in-service days, writing workshops, guest author days, and residencies (for elementary, middle school, and high school students and teachers)."" Michael J. Rosen is a very prolific author who has"
"Michael Rosen (enterprise architect) Michael (Mike) Rosen (born 1956) is an American enterprise architect, and management consultant, known for his work on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (1998), and Applying service-oriented architecture. After attending the Albert Einstein High School in Maryland, Rosen obtained his BS in Electronics Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park in 1978. In 2013 he continued his PhD study at the Radboud University on advancements in the field of business architecture under Erik Proper. After graduation Rosen started his career in industry. In 1982 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation, where he worked in various positions"
"Michael E. Rosen Michael Eric Rosen (born 11 May 1952) is a British political philosopher active in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental European intellectual thought. He is best known for his work on Hegel and the Frankfurt School. He is currently the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Government at Harvard University. Rosen is widely considered as having a near-unrivalled breadth of knowledge in the realms of political theory and intellectual history. Rosen holds a B.A. (1st) in philosophy, awarded in 1974, and a D.Phil. awarded in 1980, both from Balliol College, Oxford. He was a lecturer in"
"they saw each other was when Charlie had a family. After Miya and her grandfather read this story they decided to go to America and see where Robbie and Charlie lived. The Last Wolf The Last Wolf is a children's book written by Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Michael Foreman, published in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award. Miya has a grandfather, Michael Mcleod who has pneumonia. He is lonely with nothing much to do, so she gets him into computers. Michael comes up with a project that they could do together.They agree to discover their"
"Michael Moriarty Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and jazz musician. He received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his first acting role on American television as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 mini-series ""Holocaust"", and he played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) on the television show ""Law & Order."" Moriarty is also known for his roles in films such as ""Bang the Drum Slowly"", ""Who'll Stop the Rain"", ""Q: The Winged Serpent"", ""The Stuff"", ""Pale Rider"", ""Troll"", ""Courage Under Fire"", and ""Shiloh""."
"he became the only former MVP to also earn baseball's Executive of the Year award. Rosen was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina to Louis and Rose (née Levin) Rosen. His father left the family shortly thereafter, and Rosen's mother and grandmother moved the family to Miami, Florida, when he was 18 months old. Rosen suffered from asthma as a child, which prompted his family to move further south. While growing up, his two favorite baseball players were Lou Gehrig and Hank Greenberg. He attended Riverside Elementary School, Ada Merritt Junior High School, and then Miami Senior High School for a"
"Festival. Rosen has previously taught children's literature on the MA in education studies at the University of North London and its successor institution, London Metropolitan University. He was formerly a visiting professor of children's literature at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught children's literature, and devised an MA in children's literature, which commenced in October 2010. Since September 2014 he has been at Goldsmiths, University of London as professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies, teaching an MA in children's literature. He is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school"
"representative for the Business Architecture Guild in the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations, and member of its board of directors. Articles, a selection: Michael Rosen (enterprise architect) Michael (Mike) Rosen (born 1956) is an American enterprise architect, and management consultant, known for his work on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (1998), and Applying service-oriented architecture. After attending the Albert Einstein High School in Maryland, Rosen obtained his BS in Electronics Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park in 1978. In 2013 he continued his PhD study at the Radboud University on advancements in the field of business architecture"
"2018, he received the Caltech's highest honor, the Robert A. Millikan Medal. Rosen is married to Donna Perret Rosen, the former contemporary art gallerist in New Orleans and owner of Galerie Simone Stern there. He has two sons, Jeffrey Rosen and Eric Rosen, and a stepdaughter, Melanie Perret. Benjamin M. Rosen Benjamin ""Ben"" M. Rosen (born March 11, 1933) is the former Chairman and former Acting Chief Executive Officer of Compaq and co-founder of Sevin Rosen Funds. Rosen was born to a Jewish family in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 11, 1933 to Isadore and Anna Rosen. Rosen's father was"
"exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip"". Michael Rosen, a novelist and poet, advocated the books were not suited for children, who would be unable to grasp the complex themes. Rosen also stated that ""J. K. Rowling is more of an adult writer."" The critic Anthony Holden wrote in ""The Observer"" on his experience of judging ""Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"" for the 1999 Whitbread Awards. His overall view of the series was negative – ""the Potter saga was essentially patronising, conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain"", and he speaks of"
"The Butterfly Lion The Butterfly Lion is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize. The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2013. A young boy runs away from a boarding school and meets an old lady living in a large house. She tells him about a boy named Bertie who lived in South Africa. As a boy, Bertie had adopted an orphaned white lion cub, but was eventually forced"
"Jerusalem. He was survived by his wife, Gilla, six children, seven grandchildren, his two brothers, Rabbi Jeremy Rosen and Rabbi David Rosen, and his sister, Angela. He was widely considered one of the most popular and revered Anglo-immigrant rabbis in Israel. Michael Rosen (rabbi) Michael ""Mickey"" Rosen (""Shmuel Meir ben HaRav Yaakov Kopul"", 21 January 1945–8 December 2008) was a British-born Israeli rabbi and founder of Yakar, an innovative Jewish learning community and synagogue. Michael Rosen was one of three sons of Rabbi Yaakov Kopul and Bella Rosen. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His thinking was strongly influenced by"