You Can’t Catch Me.

ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Item Number: 88123

New York: Puffin Books, 1982.

First edition of Rosen’s children’s classic. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, “Michael Rosen 12/10/85.” In near fine condition.

English children's novelist and poet Michael Rosen authored 140 books throughout his career and served as British Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. Perhaps his best-known work, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, won numerous awards and became the subject of a Guinness World Record for "Largest Reading Lesson" with a book-reading attended by 1,500 children, and an additional 30,000 listeners online, in 2014.