Everything you need to know about Michael Morpurgo

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Michael Morpurgo

• Everything you need to know about Michael Morpurgo

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Childhood and Family Life

• Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo was born on the
  5th October 1943 in St Albans Hertfordshire. As
  of today he is 68 years old
• He is married to Clare and has 3 children called
  Sebastian , Horatio ,Rosa and seven grandchildren.

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Awards

• He and his wife were made Members of the Order
  of the British empire(MBE) for services to Youth
  in 1999.
• Michael was later promoted to an Officer of the
  Order of the British Empire(OBE) for services to
  Childrens Literature in 2006.
• Michael Morpurgo was Awarded an OBE ,an FKC , an
  AKC and an MBE

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Charity

• Michael Morpurgo and Claire Morpurgo run a
  charity called Farms for City Children they
  started it in 1976 and approximately 85,000
  children have taken part in it since.
• Michael is patron to The Prince of Wales Art
  charity and Kids foundation charity.
• In 2009 Michael donated a short story he wrote
  for them called Look At Me I Need a Smile to
  Oxfams for the Ox-Tales project.

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His Books

• Michael used to be a teacher but one day whilst
  he was teaching he discovered his storytelling
  talents .His writing career was inspired by Ted
  Hughes's poetry in the making and many other
  books. One of the 120 books he wrote is called
  shadow. Shadow is based on a true story about a
  sniffer dog in Afghanistan who went missing
  during an attack whilst at patrol. Nearly all of
  Michaels books are about wars the reason he
  writes about wars because he thinks everyone
  is interested in war and because he thinks
  children ought to understand about war.

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War Horse

• War horse is Michael Morpurgos most famous book
  it has been made into a radio broadcast, a West
  End play, Broadway play and even a film .
  
  
• it the most successful book ever
• It was a runner-up for the Whitbread book award
  in1982.