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Michael Morpurgo


UK flag (b.1943)

Multi-award winning author, Michael Morpurgo, is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, The Writers Guild Award and the Blue Peter Book Award for his novel, Private Peaceful, which has also had two successful runs as a play devised by Bristol Old Vic. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Children's Laureate, a role which took him all over the UK to promote literacy and reading, and in 2005 he was named the Booksellers Association Author of the Year.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
May 2024

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Finding Alfie
 
September 2024

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Cobweb
 
Series
War Horse
   1. War Horse (1982)
   2. Farm Boy (1997)
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Novels
   Long Way Home (1975)
   Friend or Foe (1977)
   Nine Lives of Montezuma (1980)
   Miss Wirtles Revenge (1981)
   Twist of Gold (1983)
   Little Foxes (1984)
   Why the Whales Came (1985)
   Tom's Sausage Lion (1986)
   King of the Cloud Forests (1987)
   Mossop's Last Chance (1988)
   My Friend Walter (1988)
   Mr. Nobody's Eyes (1989)
   Waiting for Anya (1990)
   The Sandman and the Turtles (1991)
   The War of Jenkins' Ear (1993)
   The Dancing Bear (1994)
   Arthur, High King of Britain (1994)
   The Wreck of the Zanzibar (1995) (with Amy Hest)
   The Butterfly Lion (1996)
   The Ghost of Grania O'Malley (1996)
   Robin of Sherwood (1996)
   Gullivers Travels (1997)
   Arthur, High King of Britain - Excalibur (1998)
   Camelot: The Last Days (1998)
   Red Eyes at Night (1998)
   Escape from Shangri-La (1998)
   Wartman (1998)
   Joan of Arc (1998)
   Kensuke's Kingdom (1999)
   Black Queen (2000)
   Dear Olly (2000)
   Billy the Kid (2000)
   Out of the Ashes (2001)
   Toro! Toro! (2001)
   The Sleeping Sword (2002)
   The Last Wolf (2002)
   Mr Skip (2002)
   Cool! (2002)
   Cool as a Cucumber (2003)
   Private Peaceful (2003)
   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2004)
   The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (2005)
   I Believe in Unicorns (2006)
   Alone on a Wide Wide Sea (2006)
   Beowulf (2006)
   Born to Run (2006)
   The Mozart Question (2007)
   Kaspar (2008)
     aka The Titanic Cat
   Running Wild (2009)
   An Elephant in the Garden (2010)
   Not Bad for a Bad Lad (2010)
   Shadow (2010)
   Little Manfred (2011)
   Outlaw (2012)
   Sparrow (2012)
   A Medal for Leroy (2012)
   Listen to the Moon (2014)
   An Eagle in the Snow (2015)
   The Fox and the Ghost King (2016)
   Toto (2017)
   Lucky Button (2017)
   Flamingo Boy (2018)
   The Snowman (2018)
   The Day the World Stopped Turning (2019)
   Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver (2019)
   When Fishes Flew (2021)
   There Once is a Queen (2022)
   Cobweb (2024)
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Collections
   It Never Rained (1974)
   All Around the Year (poems) (1979) (with Ted Hughes)
   The White Horse of Zennor (1982)
   Michael Morpurgo Pack (1994)
   Stories from Mudpuddle Farm (1994) (with Shoo Rayner)
   Muck and Magic (1995)
   Simply the Best (1996) (with others)
   Michael Morpurgo Stories (2000)
   From Hereabout Hill (2000)
   More Muck and Magic (2001)
   Kids' Night In (2003) (with others)
   Singing for Mrs Pettigrew (2006)
   Three for Tea (2006) (with Anne Fine and Jacqueline Wilson)
   Animal Tales (2008)
   Free? (2009) (with others)
   Ox-Tales:Water (2009) (with others)
   Magic Beans (2011) (with others)
   Snow Tales (2012)
   Michael Morpurgo Christmas Stories (2012)
   Stories of War (2013)
   Island Tales (2013)
   Of Lions and Unicorns (2013)
   Best Mates (2015)
   The Great War (2015) (with others)
   Christmas Stories (2015)
   Morpurgo Collection (2016)
   Greatest Animal Stories (2016)
   Greatest Magical Stories (2018)
   Magical Myths and Legends (2018)
   Winter Stories (2019)
   Carnival of the Animals (poems) (2021)
   Barney the Horse (2022)
   My Heart was a Tree (poems) (2023)
   Michael Morpurgo's Tales from Shakespeare (2023)
   Katerina the Cat and Other Tales from the Farm (2024)
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Anthologies edited
   Ghostly Haunts (1994)
   Beyond the Rainbow Warrior (1996) (with Michael Foreman)
   Animal Stories (1999)
   The Kingfisher Book of Great Boy Stories (2000)
   Because a Fire Was in My Head (2001)
   The Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories (2002) (with Rosemary Sandberg)
   Orchard Book of Aesops Fables (2004)
   War (2005)
   Wild at Heart (2008)
   The Birthday Book (2008) (with Quentin Blake)
   Only Remembered (2014)
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Chapter Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Michael Morpurgo recommends
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The Secret of the Blood-Red Key (2023)
(Stolen Dreams Adventures, book 2)
David Farr
"A new and important voice for young people."
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Impossible Creatures (2023)
Katherine Rundell
"There was Tolkien, there is Pullman and now there is Katherine Rundell. Wondrous invention, marvellous writing. This book is her best yet, and that's saying something. Just riveting, quite extraordinary."
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The Red Red Dragon (2022)
Lynne Reid Banks
"One of our greatest writers for children."

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Anthologies containing stories by Michael Morpurgo

Awards
Blue Peter Book Award Book of the Year winner (2005) : Private Peaceful
Blue Peter Book Award Book of the Year nominee (2006) : The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Costa Children's Book Award Best Novel nominee (2014) : Listen to the Moon


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