What's it like to be a writer, radio presenter and performer? Read all about Michael Rosen's life and find out what he was like as a boy, what he got up to at school and how he became a famous poet in this fascinating autobiography.

* Sapphire/Band 16 books books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

* Text type: An autobiography.

* The timeline on pages 54-55 track the major events of Michael Rosen's life that led to him becoming a successful writer.

* Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills

* Curriculum links: History: What we can learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.