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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC DL (né Bridge; 5 October 1943) [1] is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse.The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings.
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 ...
Little Foxes is a children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo in 1984. It is illustrated by Gareth Floyd and was first published in the United Kingdom by Kaye & Ward . [ 1 ]
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 .
Waiting for Anya is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain in 1990, by William Heinemann.It is set in Lescun, in a mountainous region of southern France on the border with Spain.
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 ...
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]