A timeless collection to capture our literary heritage
Winner of the Library Association's Carnegie Medal, 1990; winner of
the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, 1992; overall winner of the
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, 1992. Michael Morpurgo is one of the
UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he
has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003
to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim
and has been made into a stage play and a film.
Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at
Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many
children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other
projects, including for the V&A
Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the
International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of
research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven
Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Books in Newcastle and
was a founder-member of the UK Childrens Laureate.
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