Resources

Former Children's Laureate Anthony Browne discusses his picture books with his editor from Walker Books, Denise Johnstone-Burt, at the London Book Fair 2010 in a seminar organised by Booktrust, in this series of short videos.

Find a wealth of resources from award-winning author/illustrator and former Childrens' Laureate Anthony Browne to help children be creative and use their imaginations. The Shape Game resources include information about how to play this imaginative drawing game, a gallery of artwork, and a range of creative art activities for teachers to use with children of all ages - from Foundation stage to Key Stage 3 and beyond.

There’s a blank wall in Cave Baby’s cave. Can you help him paint it?

Colour in this picture of Charlie Cook reading his favourite book!

Scenes from Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson

Here is Greedy Goose's favourite chocolate recipe so you too can enjoy your very own Greedy Goose chocolate mousse

No party is complete without a cake - especially a GRUFFALO cake!

It’s really easy to make these fantastic finger puppets. Just follow these simple instructions.

Now you can be The Gruffalo! A Gruffalo mask to colour and make.

Hank Chief and his pirate crew are having trouble finding the buried treasure. Can you help them find it?

Download our new teaching sequence for Michael Rosen's A-Z: The Best Children's Poetry from Agard to Zephaniah

Michael Rosen's A-Z was developed during Michael Rosen's time as Children's Laureate from 2007-2009. The book accompanied his A-Z of poetry tour which saw him travel all over the UK to excite children about poetry.

This fabulous anthology of poetry for children includes a poet for every letter of the alphabet - with a few exceptions - Rosen has played around with some of the tricky letters, to give the reader something extra to think about! Featuring both older poems and plenty of contemporary works, the focus is on fun, reading aloud and diversity.

Our new downloadable teaching resource provides information, ideas and activities for fun classroom activities to use with Key Stage 2 pupils, as well as some activities suitable for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 3.

You will also find more information about Michael Rosen, as well as useful recommendations of more great poetry anthologies.

Find a wealth of resources from award-winning poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen to help make the classroom poetry friendly, including teaching sequences, book recommendations, activity ideas, videos and helpful tips from Michael himself.

Download former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen's fantastic tips on how to make your school a book-loving school.

In this series of short videos, award-winning poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen talks about why it's so important to make the classroom poetry friendly, and shares 13 inspiring, fun and creative poetry ideas to get you started.

Download ideas for poetry writing activities relating to Michael Rosen's book Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy

Download poetry activity ideas from poet Mandy Coe ideal for using with children at Key Stage 1, as part of Michael Rosen's Poetry Friendly Classroom resource.

Download poetry activity ideas from poet Mandy Coe ideal for children at Key Stage 2, as part of Michael Rosen's Poetry Friendly Classroom resource.

Set in the First World War, Private Peaceful charts eight hours in the life of Tommo, a young soldier at the Front, as he looks back over the events of his life: his father’s early death, his relationship with his loving mother and brothers, Big Joe and Charlie, and their beloved schoolfriend Molly – all set among an evocative and beautifully realised rural landscape.

Passionate, beguiling and moving, the book is also an unflinching examination of the horrors of war and the injustice surrounding the execution of soldiers by firing squad, on the – often false – grounds of desertion or cowardice.

Our downloadable teaching resource provides comprehensive notes, plus ideas and activities for using this book to support the teaching of English as well as History, Art, ICT and PSHE with pupils at Key Stage 3 or upper Key Stage 2.

You will also find more information about the author, Michael Morpurgo, as well as useful book recommendations.

Download poetry writing activities based on Michael Rosen's book Quick Let's Get Out of Here