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Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is the children's laureate of Britain. He has written over ninety-five books and won numerous awards, including the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Prize, and the Children's Book Award. Michael and his wife, Clare, run their own charity, Farms for City Children, from their farm in Devon, England.

The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables will be released on June 01, 2005 in
Jun 01, 2005
Jun 01, 2005
The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables will be released on May 31, 2005 in Hardcover
May 31, 2005
The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables is now available in Hardcover
May 31, 2005
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The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables has won an award
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Broadway World, May 18, 2012
...Tickets go on sale today, Friday 18 May, for award-winning children’s author Michael Morpurgo ’s Private Peaceful which plays for a strictly limited 16 performances only at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 18 – 29 September 2012. Directed and...
Lovereading, May 17, 2012
...a great inventor so is sure she’ll win the National … Download free opening extract 7 Homecoming Michael Morpurgo Michael Morpurgo, former Children’s Laureate and the award-winning author of War Horse, has written a beautifully...
Weston Mercury, May 17, 2012
...prizes aimed at children aged between eight to 13 – which includes books by famous authors such asg Michael Morpurgo (War Horse and Born To Run), Joan Aiken (The Cuckoo Tree and The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase), Magdalen Nabb (Twilight Ghost) and...
This is Devon, May 17, 2012
...West. They had a budget of £1,400 to spend and chose authors including Robert Muchamore, Anthony Horowitz, Michael Morpurgo and Darren Shan. There were a few classics in there too such as J.R.R. Tolkien, and some non-fiction books. Newton Abbot College...
Huffington Post UK, May 17, 2012
...Well, the film of War Horse came and went, much loved by many, less loved by others. I thought it was a wonderful adaptation of the story, as the play is too. The book used to sell only a couple of thousand of copies a year and was translated into four...
Manchester Wired, May 16, 2012
...Poet Tony Harrison and Alexei Sale will also appear at the event, which runs from 3 to 17 July on London's Southbank. This year's themes are Capital Stories - about London life - Arab Revolutions and poetry slam, Shake the Dust. The poetry slam will be...
BBC, May 16, 2012
...War Horse author Michael Morpurgo and journalist John Pilger will be among the guests at this year's London Literature Festival. Poet Tony Harrison and Alexei Sale will also appear at the event, which...
Chic Londres, March 2, 2012
...war’s forgotten horses. These paper horses, along with others decorated by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall and Michael Morpurgo, will later be auctioned to raise funds for the Museum’s redevelopment and animal welfare charity, the Brooke. For more...
Playbill, March 2, 2012
...Duncan, Troy Feldman, Bryan Hindle, Grant Landry, Ryan Reid, Sean Robertson, Brendan Rowland and Dayna Tietzen. Based on Michael Morpurgo's 1982 children's novel, War Horse premiered in London in 2007 and officially opened on Broadway April 14, 2011, at...
Kitchener Record, March 2, 2012
...Much has been written in the past four years about the unique power of this show, based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel about a young British boy named Albert Narracott who follows his beloved horse, Joey, to the battlefields of Europe during the First...
Digital Journal, March 2, 2012
...horse Joey into a living whinnying friend you can't help but adore. War Horse is based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel about a young British boy Albert Narracott who tries to find his beloved horse, Joey, in the battlefields of Europe during World War I....
Telegraph, March 2, 2012
...And The Order Of The Phoenix, the shortlist featured books by former Children's Laureates Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo. Comedian David Walliams, whose Mr Stink book, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is being adapted into a BBC1 comedy drama, and...
Huffington Post UK, March 2, 2012
...And The Order Of The Phoenix , the shortlist featured books by former Children's Laureates Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo. Comedian David Walliams, whose Mr Stink book, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is being adapted into a BBC1 comedy drama,...
Irish Independent, March 2, 2012
...And The Order Of The Phoenix, the shortlist featured books by former Children's Laureates Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo. Comedian David Walliams, whose Mr Stink book, illustrated by Quentin Blake, is being adapted into a BBC1 comedy drama, and...