For other uses, see The Hypnotiser.
The Hypnotiser is a book written by Michael Rosen, consisting of various stories. Some stories center around Michael and his family, while others are focused on original characters and scenarios. The stories are often bizarre and unusual. André Deutsch Limited first published The Hypnotiser in hardcover in 1988, and Lions later published it with paperback four years after that.
At some point, The Hypnotiser went out of print. Unable to get any publisher to reprint it, Michael decided to ask Joe to film him performing selected poems/stories from the book.[4]
List of poems[]
This list is taken from the paperback version of the book.
- Horrible
- Cool Guy and Fool Guy
- I Think
- Laura Singing
- Hot Food
- The Hollywood
- The Car Trip
- London Airport
- Conversations With A Two Year Old (Laura)
- The Outing
- Tea Time
- Babysitter
- A Ball
- Deep Down
- Far Away
- My Dad
- Goldfish
- Fridge
- Hot Air
- Presents
- May
- Christmas
- Box
- Me and My Brother
- The Project
- Strict
- The Hypnotiser
- Logic
- Headache
- George
- The Michael Rosen Rap
- No-one In
- Tidy Your Room
- Tomato I
- Tomato II: Or How I've Learnt to Love Tomatoes
- Quiet Please
- Toe Nails
- Telly
- Useless Information
- Puzzle I/Puzzle II
- Eileen
- My Dad Calls Me
- Fast Food
- My Mum
- The Skyfoogle
- Shram and Schreddle
- Harrybo
- The Bump
- Spots in my Eyes
Gallery[]
The back of The Hypnotiser (Paperback.)
Citations[]
- ↑ https://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/bibliography/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Hypnotiser-Michael-Rosen/dp/0006732615
- ↑ https://www.biblio.com/book/hypnotiser-rosen-michael/d/457765034
- ↑ "I wrote a book of poems for children called 'The Hypnotiser' some years ago and then it went out of print. I couldn't get anyone to reprint it, so I asked my son Joe to film me performing the book." Written in the description of every video performance of The Hypnotiser published in 2008, this was also written in a now deleted annotation overlaid on the videos.