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Morpurgo was born in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as Michael Andrew Bridge, the second child of actor Tony Van Bridge and actress Kippe Cammaerts (daughter of the writer and poet Émile Cammaerts). [5] Both RADA graduates, his parents had met when they were acting in the same repertory company in 1938. [6]
Little Manfred is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Michael Foreman. It was originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins in 2011. The novel is primarily set in two time periods, 1966 and World War II , and was published in partnership with the Imperial War Museum , to accompany the museum's ...
My Friend Walter is a children's fiction novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann in 1988. [ 1 ] The book was shortlisted for the 1989 Smarties Prize .
The author was knighted in 2017 and this year released a book to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Morpurgo said he wrote the novel in approximately two and a half to three months. [1] The inspiration for the story was two-fold; the major motivation was Morpurgo being touched after hearing stories of "broken lives of young children shipped out from the United Kingdom to the colonies after World War II". [1]
Private Peaceful Cover of first edition Author Michael Morpurgo Language English Genre War novel, children's novel Published 2003 Publisher HarperCollins Publication place United Kingdom Pages 185 ISBN 978-0-00-715006-9 OCLC 534265686765 Private Peaceful is a novel for older children by British author Michael Morpurgo first published in 2003. It is about a fictional young soldier called Thomas ...
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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 .