Michael Rosen: All about Me: Band 16/Sapphire

By Michael Rosen

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000723127X
• ISBN13: 9780007231270
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Collins Cobuild
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5