Michael Rosen has won the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award (CLiPPA), which is an important prize given for poetry written for children. Rosen won for his collection of poetry On the Move: Poems About Migration, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Rosen was announced the winner at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on 11 October.
Inspired by stories from his own family, the poems are about migration, which is when people leave their home in search of a better life. Rosen’s family were Polish Jews, some of whom went missing after the Second World War (1939–1945). Julie Blake, one of the CLiPPA judges, said, “This is a book to bring adults an children together to ask, ‘What’s my history, where have I come from?’”
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