Find out what Anthony Browne has been doing in his role as Children's Laureate
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Michael Rosen's new A-Z of Poetry
Posted Tuesday August 4th 2009
by Katherine WoodfineMichael Rosen gathers together the best children’s poetry from Agard through to Zephaniah in this fantasticnew collection.
Published by Puffin in August 2009, the anthology developed out of the A-Z of Poetry tour Michael Rosen instituted during his time as Children’s Laureate.
Read our review and find out more about children’s poetry books we love.
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Anthony Browne is announced as the sixth Children's Laureate!
Posted Saturday August 1st 2009
by Katherine WoodfineAndrew Motion, chair of the selection panel, awarded Anthony Browne with his medal in front of 180 guests at a ceremony at Centre Point, London, on 9 June 2009.
Andrew Motion said:
'Anthony Browne is an absolutely distinctive and extraordinarily skilful artist – someone whose work entrances children, and has influenced an entire generation of illustrators. His pictures and stories give deep and immediate pleasures, while also insisting that we – children and adults – return to them – and when we return, we have a gradually-expanding sense of discovery. It is a great pleasure to be able to recognise the achievement of Anthony's work by celebrating his appointment as Children's Laureate.'
Anthony Browne responded:
'I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books, and the reading of both pictures and words. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.'
