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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 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]
The Butterfly Lion is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize.The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, which toured the UK in 2013.
Goetz medal, which Morpurgo refers to, commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania [2]. Morpurgo said the sinking of the Lusitania was what inspired him to write this book. In one instance, he explains that his wife told him a story of when she was around seven-years-old, she had gotten chickenpox, and her family quarantined her in a separate room to avoid infecting other members of the family.
Morpurgo said he was inspired to write the novel because of "two strange stories that happened in the same day". [3] He noted how he went on holiday with his wife to Ithaca, and the couple was staying at a house on the beach, and they came to realize that this beach was where, according to legend, Odysseus walked when he came back from the Trojan War.
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 ]
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 .
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