Michael Rosen is Britain’s newly-appointed children’s laureate. He doesn’t think much of current reading education programs: “I utterly resent and reject the notion that you can teach reading without books. There is a huge push on to create an environment – in nurseries, and reception, and year ones and year twos – where books are secondary to the process of reading. This seems oxymoronic to me. We must, must have at the heart of learning to read the pleasure that is reading. Otherwise why bother?”