Michael Morpurgo calls for more respect for teachers and parents. ... The author of more than 120 books, ... In his speech entitled Set Our Children Free, to be broadcast on BBC One, Morpurgo, ...

Michael Morpurgo recalls Putin encounter ... Private Peaceful, and The Butterfly Lion, made a trip to Russia – where his ...

Writer Sir Michael Morpurgo has backed our great Books For Schools giveaway Credit: AFP. The latest innovations allow absent parents to record a story that can be “read” to kids via bedside ...

In today’s primary-school curriculum, neither the First nor the Second World War is a compulsory subject. We’re fortunate, then, to have authors such as Michael Morpurgo to fill in some of the ...

Sir Michael Morpurgo’s children’s book Mimi and the Mountain Dragon will be set to a score by Rachel Portman. Register now to continue reading Thanks for exploring the Gramophone website. Sign up for ...

SOMETIMES," sighs Michael Morpurgo, "I worry that I have very little imagination." Coming from one of the country's finest children's writers, a man with 118 books under his belt, this is a bit of ...

Best-selling children's author Michael Morpurgo will read his brand-new book written for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee, via a live-stream from Portsmouth Central Library, from 10.45am - 11.45am on ...

Michael Morpurgo novel Kensuke's Kingdom is set to become an animated movie from the makers of Ethel and Ernest and We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Lupus Films previously brought Michael Rosen's We're ...

Morpurgo, 80, is one of the world’s best-loved children’s writers, with more than 100 books to his name. He has loved some theatre adaptations of his work, but the films have rarely captured ...