Michael Morpurgo est né en 1943, à St-Albans, près de Londres. Il a suivi un itinéraire peu banal : Enfant, il n'aimait pas lire, sauf quelques bandes dessinées, et travaillait très mal à l'école. Il est entré à la "Sandhurst Military Academy" à dix-huit ans, puis a abandonné l'armée pour enseigner l'anglais, à Londres. Professeur, il invente sans cesse des histoires qu'il raconte à ses élèves car il a l'impression que les livres qu'il leur lit les ennuient. Chaque jour, ceux-ci écoutent comme un feuilleton la suite de l'histoire. Encouragé par la directrice de l'établissement, Michael propose ses textes aux éditeurs. En 1978, lui et sa femme, Clare, ouvrent une ferme dans le Devon pour accueillir des enfants de quartiers urbains défavorisés et leur faire découvrir la campagne et les animaux. C'est la publication de son premier livre, "Cheval de guerre", en 1982, qui lance véritablement la carrière d'écrivain de Michael Morpurgo. Il se consacre alors à l'écriture et aux enfants en difficulté. Il est aujourd'hui l'auteur de près d'une centaine de livres, traduits dans le monde entier et couronnés par de nombreux prix littéraires.Dans son dernier roman, "Loin de la ville en flammes", dont l'action se déroule pendant la deuxième Guerre mondiale, Michael Morpurgo, nous livre un récit de la guerre inhabituel, du côté des vaincus. Michael et Clare dirigent aujourd'hui trois fermes au Royaume-Uni où ils reçoivent chaque année plus de 3000 enfants. Ils ont été décorés par la reine de l'ordre du "British Empire", en reconnaissance de leurs actions destinées à l'enfance et Michael est devenu officier du même ordre en 2006 pour services rendus à la litterature. Ardent défenseur de la littérature pour la jeunesse, cet immense conteur est aujourd'hui considéré comme un auteur incontournable. Père de trois enfants, il a sept petits-enfants.
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Résumé
An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo.
Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in and the current about to drag him to a watery grave, his final wish is to see heaven. Waking in a strange bed, the boy meets an old man sitting by the fire with his dog. It is King Arthur, the great warrior of legend, and from his lips the boy hears of Camelot, chivalry, magic, evil and betrayal.
Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with this contemporary twist on Arthurian Legend.
Other titles you might enjoy:
An Eagle in the Snow
The Fox and the Ghost King
War Horse
The Sleeping Sword
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Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction.
He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom.
Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience. many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities.
Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard.
But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom.
Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience. many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities.
Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard.
But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo.
Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in and the current about to drag him to a watery grave, his final wish is to see heaven. Waking in a strange bed, the boy meets an old man sitting by the fire with his dog. It is King Arthur, the great warrior of legend, and from his lips the boy hears of Camelot, chivalry, magic, evil and betrayal.
Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with this contemporary twist on Arthurian Legend.
Other titles you might enjoy:
An Eagle in the Snow
The Fox and the Ghost King
War Horse
The Sleeping Sword
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Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction.
He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom.
Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience. many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities.
Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard.
But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom.
Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience. many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities.
Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard.
But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
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