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The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.

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In 1944, writer Laura Hobson thought her project might be too bold. Her friend, who wasn’t Jewish, convinced her otherwise.