Michael Rosen had just concluded a talk to school pupils on his search to discover the fate of two of his relatives murdered in the Holocaust, when a young man raised his hand and asked: “Well, none of this actually happened, did it?”
“That kind of threw me,” says Rosen, a popular British children’s author and poet. “I can remember the sort of feeling of flush on my face and not immediately finding the words to explain what it was that I wanted to say.”
