Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Great Regulars: I heard that Julia Donaldson

is the new children's laureate over the airwaves from Radio 4 and had a little giggle at the mismatch between the carefully measured tones of the newsreader and Axel Scheffler's fine picture in the middle of Room on the Broom when "THE BROOM SNAPPED IN TWO!" --and "Down fell the cat and the dog and the frog./Down they went tumbling into a bog."

But why shouldn't such rhyming rollicking have a place in the news of the day?

from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: It's not just Julia Donaldson's rollicking rhymes that make her a fine laureate

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