Children's author Michael Rosen shares a reading of his favourite book as a child: Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner
Can you remember what your favourite book as a child was? Hopefully you have had the chance to read yours to your own children, or maybe you are planning to when they are a little older. Here, in a film produced by Amazon Family, Children’s Laureate 2007-2009 Michael Rosen reads from Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner - his favourite storybook as a child.
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