Ready For Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids by Michael Rosen – illustrated by Polly Dunbar.
Michael Rosen and Polly Dunbar – two of the best-loved talents in our industry – have joined forces for the first time. Michael’s rhymes have captured the simple magic of a child’s day, and Polly’s pictures are full of beautiful observations of children and their world. It’s a perfect match and a deeply charming book…
— Becky Watson, commissioning editor at Walker Books, via The Bookseller
From Michael Rosen:
Ready for Spaghetti is a book for our very youngest children. From the day we are born, we are learning how to talk and to understand what people say to us – and one crucial part of how we do that is to play with words… Above all else, I hope this book will be a child’s springboard for playing with language themselves.
And from Polly Dunbar:
I’ve been a lifelong fan of Michael Rosen and his work… What an incredible honour to illustrate these poems: they fizz with life and joy and seemingly poured out of him at what must have been a very difficult time. I tried to approach the drawings with the same energy and joie de vivre that Michael’s words have – having my three-year-old son around while I was making the art helped me to capture that magic age when everyday life zings with possibilities.
Walker Books say:
From two of the biggest names in children’s publishing, this is an inspiring guide to wordplay for young readers, their parents and teachers.
I’m ready for spaghetti
Will you getti the spaghetti?
Don’t say, “Not yetti spaghetti!”
‘cos I’m all setti for spaghetti.
Polly Dunbar is author-illustrator of award-winning Penguin, illustrator of The Hug picture books. She’s represented by The Catchpole Agency.