The astonishing breadth of her writing was a great inspiration – as was she, in her passionate advocacy for children’s books• Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94It is quite rare to find a writer like Lynne Reid Banks, who tries so many different subjects, and so... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-08 10:18:15 UTC ]
A Nobel laureate and a future publisher play major roles in Margarita Engle’s “Singing With Elephants” and Michael Morpurgo’s “The Puffin Keeper.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-03 04:06:53 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo, Sharna Jackson and Matt Lucas are among the authors on the list of World Book Day's £1 books for 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 02:12:21 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish Morpurgo’s Tales from Shakespeare by Michael Morpurgo, a retelling of 10 of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-20 01:32:21 UTC ]
HarperCollins is donating 50,000 books to organisations supporting families during the Covid-19 crisis, including titles by Michael Morpurgo, Ant Middleton and David Walliams. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 05:16:31 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo will publish a book this September about a young Afghan refugee, inspired by Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-04 23:38:39 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo and Paul Theroux are among the writers and public figures introducing a new series of themed poetry anthologies from the Macmillan Collector's Library. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 11:41:33 UTC ]
New Writing North and Michael Morpurgo’s Farms for City Children are among seven charities sharing £100,000 donated by HarperCollins UK parent company News Corp UK, via the annual News Corp Giving programme. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 09:16:53 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children's executive publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh has acquired world rights to four books - two novels, a novella and an illustrated gift title - by Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daunt Books, Waterstones and Foyles are raising money for The Passage, a charity that supports people who are homeless, by selling a book of short stories by AS Byatt, Lennie James and Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s authors Judith Kerr and Michael Morpurgo will next week launch a campaign to fund a new gallery at Seven Stories, the Newcastle-based National Centre for Children’s Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo has joined Jonathan Bryan at the launch of "powerful" memoir, Eye Can Write. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo is to team up with illustrator Michael Foreman on a book to commemorate the centenary of Armistice Day 1918 for Scholastic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s will this autumn release a middle-grade novelisation of Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman, written by Michael Morpurgo. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo has penned a new novel, Flamingo Boy (HarperCollins Children's Books), inspired by his autistic grandson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Publishing has signed a new deal between Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Barroux based on the "epic", true story of Morpurgo’s uncles during World War Two. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo, Meg Rosoff and Chris Riddell are among the famous names who will be appearing at the inaugural International Children’s Literature Hay Festival Aarhus 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo, Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson will appear at the Manchester Literature Festival in October to help explore “divas, dissidents, pioneers and radicals”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
BBC Radio 2 is making a drama based on Michael Morpurgo’s child migration novel, Alone On A Wide Wide Sea (HarperCollins Children’s Books), starring Toby Jones and Jason Donovan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo has won the overall Children’s Book Award for a record-breaking fourth time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]