Facts about michael morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC DL | |
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| Born | Michael Andrew Bridge (1943-10-05) 5 October 1943 (age 81) St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
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| Alma mater | King's College London |
| Notable works | War Horse, Why the Whales Came, Private Peaceful |
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| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Tony Van Bridge (father) Kippe Cammaerts (mother) |
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge MorpurgoOBE FRSL FKC DL (néBridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTr
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I 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 father was away at the war, in Baghdad. I had one older brother, Pieter. We both were evacuated to Northumberland when we were little, away from the bombs. After the war it was all change at home, not that I remember much of it. My mother wanted to be with a man she had met while my father was away in the army. He was called Jack Morpurgo. So my father came home to find there was no place for him. There was a divorce. Jack Morpurgo married my mother, and so became our stepfather. We lived in London then. We went to primary school at St Matthias in the Warwick Road, then were sent off to boarding school in Sussex – the Abbey, Ashhurst Wood. inom was there for six years, hated being away from home, loved rugby and singing. Then I went off to a school in Canterbury, The King’s School, where I got more used to being away from home and still loved sport and
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(1) Michael Morpurgo was born in St Albans in 1943.
(2) His favourite lesson at school was French.
(3) With his wife, Clare, Michael Morpurgo founded the Farms for City Children, to give children from deprived inner-city schools the chance to work on a farm.
(4) Sitting at a desk gives Michael Morpurgo backache, so he writes his novels sitting on his bed. He writes in school exercise books.
(5) Private Peaceful was the 100th book written by Michael Morpurgo.
(6) His favourite authors are: Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island), Rudyard Kipling (The Just So Stories) and Ted Hughes (The Iron Man).
(7) In 2003 Michael Morpurgo became the third Children's Laureate.
(8) Micheal Morpurgo was a primary school teacher in Kent.
(9) He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2006
(10) He hates rewriting and he hates making correctio