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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]
In 1976 author Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Clare Morpurgo (the oldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books), [2] established the charity Farms for City Children, [3] with the primary aim of providing children from inner city areas with experience of the countryside. [4]
The author was knighted in 2017 and this year released a book to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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 ...
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee milestone will be marked with official commemorations in June.
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 .
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 ]
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.