Getting Better
Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

As a teacher, I have long term loved Michael Rosen's writing, but since writing so openly about being ill with Covid in 2020 I couldn't wait for this one. As someone with a lifelong chronic illness, his words speak to my soul, and this book didn't disappoint. It is so refreshing to read someone writ......more

found this book emotional and interesting with the language used as the author discusses different aspects of his life and experiences......more

Like many others, I grew up on Michael Rosen’s work, including probably his best known, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. I hadn’t read him for a while when I picked up Many Different Kinds of Love in a supermarket in 2021, where he tells us of his experience of COVID-19, being in a coma, in intensive car......more

The chapter on Eddie alone made me give this book 5*. Such a moving, well-written memoir with really great advice.......more

Michael Rosen is a man of words , poetry, language …as someone who has worked in primary education for 35 years he is also a bit of a legend …but he is also a man of wisdom and compassion and this autobiographical book about life and living shows this . In some senses this could be described as a se......more