A timeless collection to capture our literary heritage
Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel award, 2007;
shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Author award, 2007;
shortlisted for the Edge Hill short story prize, 2009. Awarded the
Nordic Children's Book Prize, 2007; winner of the Icelandic
Children's Book Prize, 2004. Winner of the Whitbread Children's
Book Award, 2004, 1994, 1987; winner of the Carnegie Medal, 1988;
awarded the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 1989; winner of the
Blue Peter Book of the
Year award, 2000 and Blue Peter 'Best Book to Keep Forever' award,
2001; Michael L. Printz Award, 2008; British nominee for the Hans
Christian Andersen Award, 2004. Awarded the SCBWI Illustration
award
for Best of Portfolio, 2013. Awarded second place in the Macmillan
Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration, 2006. 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.
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