1. Michael Morpurgo was born 5 October 1943. he is an English author, poet
playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's books. Michael
Morpurgo was born at St Albans.
Michael Morpurgo is married with three children, a grandfather six times over. We
had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was
reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to
tell my kids - it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was
magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me."
In 1976 Michael and his wife, Clare, started the charity Farms For City Children ,
which aims to relieve the poverty of experience of young children from inner city
and urban areas by providing them with a week in which they work actively and
purposefully on farms in the heart of the countryside. In the last 30 years over
50,000 children from cities and towns throughout the UK have spent a week of their
lives living and working for a week on one of the three farms .
Michael Morpurgo’s first book was “it never rained.”
Michael Morpurgo’s books:
Butterfly lion, shadow, It’s a dog’s life, running wild .
The last wolf, little man Fred, Kaspar.