Michael morpurgo

As children return to school, Michael Morpurgo questions whether we are educating our children....or programming them. "The pandemic has found us out," Michael writes, "shown us how ridiculous and absurd and sad" is the rigidity of a system of education so dictated and dominated by endless data gathering and exams. He argues that we must use this opportunity - where so much is up for grabs - to take a serious look at what needs to change.

Michael Morpurgo, former children's laureate, author of more than 120 books, including War Horse, and judge of the Wicked young writers' award, offers his top advice for writers of all ages

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I confess that I’ve always harboured a little inverse snobbery about the work of the much lauded Michael Morpurgo. It dates back to an event by Mr Gum author Andy Stanton, who spent a conside…

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Luxury collector’s hardback gift edition.“All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.

Read 449 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck …

Much ado about... meI was born a really long time ago. 5th October 1943. In St Alban’s in Hertfordshire. My mother was there too, strangely enough, but my