Michael Rosen's Sad Book By Michael Rosen (Paperback, 2011)

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A heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all Michael Rosen's Sad Book is such a book It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19 A moving combination of sincerity & simplicity it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable & perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling & it went straight down onto the page Quentin didn't illustrate it he 'realized' it He turned the text into a book & as a result showed me back to myself No writer could ask & get more than that & Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael being sad but trying to look happy is the most difficult drawing he's ever done a moving experience