Michael Morpurgo is an extraordinary prolific British author, poet, playwright, and librettist. He started writing while working as a teacher in a village primary school in Kent, and has since written more than a hundred books, including War Horse (1982). In 1976, he and his wife Clare set up the charity Farms for City Children, providing children from the cities the opportunity to experience the countryside.
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War Horse
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On It Started with a Boy and a Horse
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From the Theatre Production of War Horse
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On a Relationship Dating Back Millennia
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On Tell that Story and Mean It
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At the First World War Graveyard in Ypres
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On Hope After Dark Times
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On Writing War Horse
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On Writing for Children
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War Horse
Joey is a young farm horse. In 1914, he is sold to the army and finds himself fighting alongside his officer on the Western Front. Amidst the horrors of the Great War on the frontline, his courage will be an inspiration for everyone around him.
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The Rattle Bag
By Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (ed.)
Recommended by: Michael Morpurgo
Publish Date: 1982
Composed of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes’ favourite poems, The Rattle Bag represents a classic poetry anthology. Including masters such as Shakespeare, William Blake, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot, as well as rare gems, translated poems, and poems from…
The Man Who Planted Trees
By Jean Giono
Recommended by: Michael Morpurgo
Publish Date: 1954
Children’s book. An ode to nature in allegorical form, The Man Who Planted Trees tells the tale of young man who, during his journey across Provence and the barren plains of the lower Alps, finds himself out of water and…
The Old Man And The Sea
By Ernest Hemingway
Recommended by: Michael Morpurgo
Publish Date: 1952 Awards: 1953 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
A universal tale of endurance set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, The Old Man and the Sea explores mankind’s titanic battle to dominate nature. The old fisherman Santiago’s struggle against the giant marlin is a testament…