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Michael Morpurgo

July 2024

  • Kensuke’s Kingdom

    Kensuke’s Kingdom review – Michael Morpurgo’s desert island boy’s own adventure

    Morpurgo’s yarn about a kid on a round the world voyage is adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and attractively packaged as a family-friendly animation

April 2024

  • Lynne Reid Banks with Michael Morpurgo in 2017.

    ‘She was like an auntie to me’: Lynne Reid Banks remembered by Michael Morpurgo

    The astonishing breadth of her writing was a great inspiration – as was she, in her passionate advocacy for children’s books

March 2024

  • David Nicholls, Elif Shafak and Gary Lineker.

    Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup

    This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation

February 2024

  • A scene from War Horse with a horse puppet

    National Theatre’s War Horse to return to UK stages after five-year absence

    Exclusive: Director says he is interested to see response of new audiences at a time of growing instability

January 2024

  • Two girls laughing and reading books in school library

    ‘Every school should have a library’: Philip Pullman calls for new UK laws

  • Michael Morpurgo

    Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books

October 2023

  • Michael Morpurgo

    Sunday with Michael Morpurgo: ‘We go to the pub where I was inspired to write War Horse’

  • ‘Why? I’m not Roald Dahl’ … Michael Morpurgo in Iddesleigh.

    ‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

July 2023

  • CHRISTINE BAKER HARRY POTTER<br>Christine Baker of French publisher Gallimard Jeunesse

    Christine Baker obituary

    Editor with the Paris-based publisher Gallimard Jeunesse who was determined to give British children’s books a presence in France

November 2022

  • Aarian Mehrabani and Kirsty Ferriggi in The Sleeping Sword.

    The Sleeping Sword review – Morpurgo fable transformed into scrapbook of wonder

    Michael Morpurgo’s novel about a boy’s Arthurian adventure is inventively brought to life in an inclusive production

October 2022

  • Flying Scotsman Centenary Celebrations Launched At London King's Cross Station<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 14: The name plate is seen on the front of the Flying Scotsman during a press event at King's Cross St. Pancras Station on October 14, 2022 in London, England. The Flying Scotsman, the first locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), embarked on its first voyage from the sheds at Doncaster Works in February 1923 simply numbered 1472. It gained its name in 1924 when it was selected to appear at the British Empire Exhibition in London and named after the daily 10:00 am London to Edinburgh rail service. The celebrity locomotive's appearance at London King's Cross Station also celebrates the 170th anniversary of the station, which first opened its doors to the public on 14th October 1852. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    Full-steam ahead at 100: the Flying Scotsman set for centenary UK tour

    The iconic green locomotive, which turns 100 next year, is about to leave the station for a fortnight of special trips – and celebrated by a new story book from Michael Morpurgo

May 2022

  • Primary school pupils working in classroom with male teacher.

    Wrong prescription for teaching English

  • ‘At primary school we were taught that words were not for fun’ … Michael Morpugo as a schoolboy.

    ‘My spelling isn’t that great’: Michael Morpurgo on why teaching kids to love writing is more important than grammar

March 2022

  • ‘She bought pleasure to so many people’ … Shirley Hughes.

    Shirley Hughes remembered: ‘Everything she shone her attention on turned to gold’

    The popular author and illustrator of Dogger and the Alfie series has died. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute to her

February 2022

  • Marilyn Malin

    Other lives
    Marilyn Malin obituary

    Other lives: Publisher who championed Michael Morpurgo and Floella Benjamin

September 2021

  • Alison Reid in An Elephant in the Garden.

    An Elephant in the Garden review – a tale that will never be forgotten

    Michael Morpurgo’s story of a family fleeing Dresden in 1945 resonates today, animated by Alison Reid’s uncanny acting

April 2021

  • Cressida Cowell photographed at her home in West London. Cowell is the new UK Children's Lauterate. The position initially awarded in the United Kingdom once every two years to a "writer or illustrator of children's books to celebrate outstanding achievement in their field." Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world. In addition to her other publications, Cowell works with illustrator Neal Layton in the ongoing series of Emily Brown stories. The first in the series, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestlé Children’s Book Award.

    Children’s laureates campaign for £100m a year to fix primary school libraries

    Current laureate Cressida Cowell leads demands to ringfence funds to renew ‘deteriorating’ facilities that fail to appeal to students

January 2021

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival<br>EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 25: English book author Sir Michael Morpurgo attends a photocall during the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival at Charlotte Square Gardens on August 25, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

    Michael Morpurgo denies 'censoring' Merchant of Venice in children's book

    War Horse author says his Tales from Shakespeare was only ever going to include 10 plays, and he has chosen the ones most likely to appeal to young readers

October 2020

  • Michael Morpurgo.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Michael Morpurgo's cultural highlights

    The War Horse author on The Salisbury Poisonings, the pick of the Proms and why he longs to move to Leith…

August 2020

  • A scene from On The Town in 2017m

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Great outdoors: the magic of Regent's Park Open Air theatre – in pictures

    Theatre has returned to Regent’s Park in London with a socially distanced revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, plus comedy nights under the stars. We look back at memorable past productions
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