Here you’ll find everything you want to know about Michael’s books, forthcoming events, the latest news, including film and theatre productions, and his extensive charity work.
You can also download resources for the classroom and activity sheets for children to do at home. Why not post a review of one of Michael’s books or read a regular letter from Michael?
Latest letter: A postcard for you
War Child to War Horse is the life of Michael Morpurgo, as a biography, and autobiographical stories. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. How did this unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret?
The Hay Festival
The novelist delivers the inaugural Library Lecture on children’s rights, readers’ rights and the importance of libraries. Plus, Michael Morpurgo and Maggie Fergusson talk to Peter Florence about how the prolific children’s novelist succeeded in weaving his biographer’s histories into his own fictions.
You’ll find some great teaching ideas in the resources section, plus cover images that you can download and display in the classroom. The activities section has some great activity sheets for parents to download for kids at home.
