Archive: May 2014

Michael Morpurgo presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Feed the Minds on Sunday 25 May at 07.55

23rd May 2014

Feed the Minds equips people in Africa and Asia who have missed out on an education with knowledge and skills they can use to change their lives and communities for the better. They do this by working with local organisations to deliver ‘Education for Change’ projects that integrate literacy training… Read More

New Private Peaceful resource supports traditional and visual literacy

20th May 2014

An innovative new, cross curricular resource from education charity Into Film and the National Literacy Trust offers teachers an array of stimulating possibilities for using Michael Morpurgo’s moving story Private Peaceful to develop literacy and bring World War I to life in its centenary year. Created for use across the… Read More

Only Remembered – a collection of powerful words and pictures about the war that changed our world

9th May 2014

Only Remembered is a collection of powerful words and pictures about the war that changed our world, chosen by some of the UK’s leading cultural, literary and political figures, and edited by one of the world’s master storytellers and creator of War Horse. High-profile contributors include Her Royal Highness The… Read More

The biggest Gruffalo in the world

3rd May 2014

Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler completed the biggest Gruffalo of all time on the wall of a west London school library which Michael Morpurgo opened last year. The Gruffalo drawing was a part of a larger mural that also featured Mouse, Owl and Fox. The mural was a gift purchased and… Read More

Michael Morpurgo addresses the ‘Pity of War’

2nd May 2014

Michael Morpurgo’s strong opinions on the most fitting way to commemorate the First World War’s 100th anniversary were outlined in his talk tonight at Wiltshire’s Bowood House on the theme, ‘War Horse and the Pity of War: Writing about the First World War’. Addressing a gathering of 100 guests in… Read More