You Can’t Catch Me is full of poems by a man called Michael Rosen. These poems are all about how weird and wonderful being a child can be. How does he know? He remembers like an elephant. He remembers exactly what it felt like to be a child. He tells stories about what happened to him when he was growing up in London in the 1950s – stories about his family, his mates, his adventures. In those days children were left to do their own thing. They got up to all sorts…

Daniel Jamieson