The display spotlights the vital interplay between writer and illustrator with original artwork, fun children's activities, and events with the Muswell Hill author himself. Pencil sketches, watercolour, film, digital art, and collage by 14 illustrators will be on show including Korky Paul, Quentin Blake, and Tony Ross. Work by 14 illustrators is on display including 'No Breathing In Class' by Korky Paul (Image: Korky Paul) There are also Claire Mackie’s illustrations for Rosen’s Book of Nonsense and images from his latest books, illustrated by David Melling and Michael Foreman.
Michael Rosen: The Illustrators opens at Pinner's Heath Robsinson Museum on June 29 and takes a journey through Rosen's life and career from the 70s to the present. The poet and performer was born in Harrow in 1946 and spent his childhood in Pinner. As well as being a national advocate for children's literature and poetry he is a patron of the Museum to the cartoonist and illustrator.
Michael Rosen was born in Harrow, raised in Pinner and now lives in Muswell Hill (Image: Heath Robinson Museum) He says children who read his books see the words and pictures as "one whole thing..not as separate elements".
"They combine in fascinating ways, each side of the combination contributing to the other: words informing the pictures, the pictures informing the words. "One person called it a 'relay' as if our minds run to and fro between the two. "I agree with that, but it leaves out the fact that our minds com.
