About the Author

Michael Rosen was brought up in London, and studied English at Oxford. After a spell as a trainee at the BBC, he has worked as a freelance broadcaster and writer. He is known mostly as a children's poet, but his recent adult volumes, Carrying the Elephant, about the death of his son, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie, are highly acclaimed. He lives in Dalston, north London, with his wife and daughter.