One genius bee. One not-so-genius boy. Together: one totally brilliant quiz team! Think Michael Rosen and Tony Ross make a perfect pair? So do Bilal and his brilliant bee! Bilal is terrified of The Test. He can’t answer a single question. Then Bumble the bee comes along – and he can answer any question you ask! (Even the really tricky ones.) So Bilal’s granny has an idea: they could go on a TV quiz show! Is this their chance to win the big prize and become famous superstars?

From the dream team of Michael Rosen and Tony Ross

A wonderfully bonkers short novel full of witty delight

Accessible text for confident readers, with funny artwork

Michael Rosen was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009

Product Details

Catalogue number

130 in EU Primary September 2019

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781783443956

Publisher

Andersen Press Ltd

Date published

April 7th, 2016

Other details

96 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Michael Rosen and Tony Ross Pack x 4

eur prices

Price: €30.54

gbp prices

Price: £22.96

Author/Illustrator

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born into a London Jewish family, the son of two distinguished educators – Connie and Harold Rosen. Michael’s childhood was rich in books, stories and conversation.

Michael attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School for a year but transferred to Wadham College, Oxford to study English Literature. At Oxford, he started to realise his ambition of acting (as well as writing and directing). Michael still says that if he wasn’t a poet, he’d like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is!

The narrowness of his course of study proved a source of dissatisfaction and Michael began looking outside his recommended reading to contemporary working, class ballads. He retains a passion for street rhymes, popular songs and folk stories.

Michael Rosen has been writing poetry since the age of 18. His first collection, Mind Your Own Business, was published in 1974. Although it was not planned as a collection for children, it appeared on Andre Deutsch’s children’s list. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience. It was just incredibly exhilarating.”

He quickly made a name for himself with his collections of humorous verse and picture books for children. He is described as one of the most significant figures in contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

Michael is now a poet, author and broadcaster, and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.

Tony Ross

Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. As well as his own books, he has illustrated books for authors such as Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger and Michael Palin.