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Michael Rosen's Sad Book Book

Offers a heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son. This book chronicles the author's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    This is a heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates. Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all. Michael Rosen's Sad Book is such a book. It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain. It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text, 'I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it went straight down onto the page...Quentin didn't illustrate it, he 'realized' it. He turned the text into a book and as a result showed me back to myself. No writer could ask and get more than that.' And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael 'being sad but trying to look happy' is the most difficult drawing he's ever done...'a moving experience'. Michael Rosen's Sad Book, which has sold over 125,000 copies in hardback, won the Exceptional Book category at the English 4-11 Book Awards for the Best Books, the Smarties Book Prize 6-8 Category Bronze Award and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

  • Foyles

    A heartbreakingly honest account of a father’s grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children’s Laureates.Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all. Michael Rosen's Sad Book is such a book. It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19. A moving combination of sincerity and simplicity, it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable and perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain. It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text, " I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling and it went straight down onto the page ... Quentin didn't illustrate it, he 'realized' it. He turned the text into a book and as a result showed me back to myself. No writer could ask and get more than that." And Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael "being sad but trying to look happy" is the most difficult drawing he's ever done... "a moving experience."

  • BookDepository

    Michael Rosen's Sad Book : Paperback : Walker Books Ltd : 9781406317848 : : 22 Jul 2011 : A heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates.

  • RedHouse

    Michael Rosen explains that his Sad Book is intended to help anyone who's been sad about anything at all, find out what they're thinking about and why they're thinking it.

  • Pickabook

    Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake (Illus)

  • 1406317845
  • 9781406317848
  • Michael Rosen
  • 3 January 2011
  • Walker
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 40
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