Michael Rosen Day ‘Poetry Party’: Thursday 13 November 2025

Read for Good and Walker Books, in collaboration with Michael’s other publishers, held a HUGE poetry party in celebration of the second annual Michael Rosen Day at our free virtual author event with Michael on Thursday 13 November 2025 at 10am (recommended for 5 to 11-year-olds).

Michael performed a delicious feast of his most-loved funny food poems, including Hot Food: Nice! and his infamous Chocolate Cake poem (mmm… nice!). Plus, he also read the winning poems from the brand new Michael Rosen Day Funny Food poetry competition. What a tasty treat!

Find our recording of the event HERE to watch whenever you like!

Celebrate poetry on Michael Rosen Day and every day, with FREE resources from Walker Books – fabulous book-based ideas and activities to help you bring Michael’s work and poetry to life in your setting, including a full plan for the day. 

Register for your FREE resources

Add to your collections of Michael Rosen titles for your own poetry party celebrations, displays, book or reading corners, working walls and classroom or school libraries. Available from all good bookshops, your usual supplier or Peters.

At Read for Good, we believe that children who read for fun in their spare time are more likely to lead happy, fulfilled lives. We deliver programmes designed to support parents and professionals working with children and young people to help enable, empower and inspire a life-changing love of reading.

Donations and Readathon sponsorship support our hospital programme which provides a regular supply of brand new books and professional storyteller visits to brighten up the days of children in all of the UK’s main children’s hospitals.

Find out more about Read for Good here and register for updates about our work, free resources and events here.

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  • This Michael Rosen event, in partnership with Walker Books (and in collaboration with Puffin, Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Hachette and The Week Junior), is completely free and open to all.
  • The person registering for the event must be over 18 years old.
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