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Kensuke's Kingdom is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Michael Foreman. Following a fictionalised version of Morpurgo as he is stranded on a desert island as a child, it was first published in 1999 [ 1 ] by Egmont UK .
It was announced in February 2019 that an animated film adaptation of the children's novel Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo was in development, with Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe and Raffey Cassidy set as part of the voice cast, like the novel following a fictionalised version of Morpurgo himself as he is stranded on a desert island as a child.
Farm Boy is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Michael Foreman. The book is the sequel to the popular novel War Horse. The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Pavilion Books. It was republished in 1999 by HarperCollins Children's Book. [1]
Morpurgo was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon on 10 April 2015. [102] Morpurgo is also President of BookTrust, the UK's largest children's reading charity. [4] On 9 November 2023 Morpurgo was awarded an honorary doctorate at University of Plymouth, [103] after writing almost all of his 150 books in the county of Devon.
Why the Whales Came is a British children's story written by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in 1985 in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann , and by Scholastic in the United States. It is set on the island of Bryher , one of the Isles of Scilly , off the coast of Cornwall , in the year 1914. [ 1 ]
Jo - The main character, a shepherd boy, around 12 years old. Benjamin - He lost his daughter Anya, and is waiting for her to arrive in Lescun. Widow Horcada - A secretive old widow and Benjamin's mother in law. Grandpere- Jo's grandfather; involved in the smuggling of children. Hubert - A kind handicapped boy who is very good friends with Jo
A young boy named Michael runs away from a boarding school and meets an old lady living in a big cottage. She tells him about a boy named Bertie who lived in South Africa. As a boy, Bertie had found an orphaned white lion cub, but was eventually forced to send the lion away to the circus and leave South Africa to attend boarding school in Wiltshire, Englan
Daniel and Gracie soon meet the Birdman in person, discovering that he is kind, gentle, and profoundly deaf. They begin a secret friendship. Born as Mr Woodcock on Samson, he tells the children that, when he was a small boy, a group of narwhals were beached and slaughtered by the islanders for their valuable horns.