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  2. Michael Morpurgo - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (children's novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Little Manfred - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Kensuke's Kingdom - Wikipedia

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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 .

  6. Alone on a Wide Wide Sea - Wikipedia

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    Secondly, Morpurgo tells the story of when his Australian friend Alex Whitworth and his mate Peter Crozier, sailed around the world in their first circumnavigation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to Morpurgo, they saw a strange light in the sky one night in March 2005, and started emailing their friends in Sydney about it. [ 2 ]

  7. Why the Whales Came - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  8. My Friend Walter - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. The Wreck of the Zanzibar - Wikipedia

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    The Wreck Of The Zanzibar is a children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Publishers in 1995. The book won the Whitbread Children's Book Award in 1995, it was shortlisted for a Carnegie Medal, and won the Children's Book Award for Long Novel in 1996.