IN mid-March, beloved children's author Michael Rosen started suffering flu-like symptoms. Just as he started to recover, his health severely declined. NHS 111 advised his wife, Emma-Louise Williams, to keep him at home. Seeking a second opinion from a friend who was a doctor saved his life. Rosen spent the next seven weeks in intensive care, six weeks hooked up to a ventilator. He was given 50/50 odds, at best, of survival.
While the country was adjusting to lockdown, news of Rosen’s condition brought the severity of the virus home. The former Children’s Laureate, now 74, was a fixture of many of our school days, and as we grew up we discovered that beyond the nonsense rhymes there was another side. Born into a first-generation Polish family, always a bit…
