I decided to read War Child to War Horse because I have loved Morpurgo's books so much over the years. This makes one wonder why would he continue to write after all these years of disliking it and being unhappy? I got the impression from the book that he wrote because he loved seeing the joy on people's faces as they talked to him about his book, and young kids as they read them. The fact that I can still remember so many of these proves how awesome a writer Morpurgo is, and reading his biography revealed a whole lot about him and how he never has really enjoyed writing stories. I read some of these this year, last year, the year before that, two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, five years ago and before. just a few of his books that had the biggest effect on me and my life.
Running Wild, Best Mate, Why the Whales Came, Shadow, The White Horse of Zennor, Private Peaceful, Sparrow. Michael Morpurgo's books have had a huge influence on me throughout my years of reading, right up to and continuing into the present and future. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: the Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award. Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of the Economist magazine Intelligent Life. The biographical portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful.
How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he now haunted by regret? In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo’s life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. The story of a Devon horse sent to fight on the Western Front has made Michael Morpurgo a household name. Steven Spielberg, meantime, has made it into a film. Five years on, it continues to play to packed audiences of all ages in the West End and New York, and later this year it will tour America, as well as opening in Toronto and Australia. In 2007, Michael’s novel ‘War Horse’ was adapted for the stage by the National Theatre. But it is not only children he holds in his thrall.
Through books such as ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending.
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