Join Michael Morpurgo’s live-streamed event!

Join best-selling author MICHAEL MORPURGO ‘LIVE’ from Portsmouth Central Library on Monday 23rd May from 10.45-11.45am as he reads and talks about There Once is a Queen, his special book for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Click here to join the live stream: https://bit.ly/TOIAQLive

There Once is a Queen is a beautiful gift book illustrated by Michael Foreman which begins with Her Majesty The Queen as a child, planting an oak tree with her father, and follows her story in a way that brings The Queen’s incredible, historic reign vividly to life for readers around the globe, big and small.

‘Once upon a time, there was a little girl. One day, she planted a tree with her papa, an oak tree. Quite soon, that tree was higher than she was. And quite soon after that she discovered she was a princess.’

THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THE EVENT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND IN A QUESTION FOR MICHAEL PLEASE EMAIL THEM WITH THE SUBJECT HEADING MORPURGO QUESTION BEFORE MONDAY 23 MAY TO  childrens.publicity@harpercollins.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT NOT ALL QUESTIONS WILL BE ABLE TO BE ANSWERED.

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