A timeless collection to capture our literary heritage
Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, 2007; the Red House
Children's Book Award, 2007; and Silver Smarties Prize (0-5 years)
2003. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, 2004. 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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