Quick, Let's Get Out of Here

This complements Michael Rosen's previous Deutsch cassette, You Can't Catch Me, now re-issued (1 hr, £4.50). It's the essence of Michael Rosen: enormously accessible poems about ordinary things like the 'splodge splodge splodge' of the sauce bottle, baby Eddie's nappies or kerflumping on the sofa. The rhythms are those of everyday speech, full of onomatopoeic thudda thudda's, wheeeeeeeeee's and BAMMs. His delivery is chatty and humorous, giving to the words the zest which Quentin Blake's vigorous, witty illustrations provide in the book. The cassette and book are available separately, but are great fun together.