Michael Morpurgo

**Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo** <small>OBE</small> (born 5 October 1943) is a British writer. **Michael Morpurgo** grew up in London during a war there. He was a teacher, but the book _Poetry in the Making_ by Ted Hughes, made him decide to write instead of teaching. He is the author of over one hundred books, mostly for children, many of which have given many prizes and awards. Five of his books have been made into films. _My Friend Walter_ (1988) and _Out of the Ashes_ (2001) have both been made into television.

## Books Written

- _It Never Rained: Five Stories_ (1974)
- _Living Poets_ (compiler with Clifford Simmons) (1974)
- _Long Way Home_ (1975)
- _Thatcher Jones_ (1975)
- _The Story-Teller_ (compiler with Graham Barrett) (1976)
- _Friend or Foe (1977)_
- _Do All You Dare_ (1978)
- _What Shall We Do with It?_ (1978)
- _All Around the Year_ (with Ted Hughes) (1979)
- _Love at First Sight_ (1979)
- _That's How_ (1979)
- _The Day I Took the Bull By the Horn_ (1979)
- _The Ghost-Fish_ (1979)
- _The Marble Crusher and Other Stories_ (1980)
- _The Nine Lives of Montezuma_ (1980)
- _Miss Wirtle's Revenge_ (1981)
- _The White Horse of Zennor: And Other Stories from below the Eagle's Nest_ (1982)
- _War Horse_ (1982)
- _Twist of Gold_ (1983)
- _Little Foxes_ (1984)
- _Why the Whales Came_ (1985)
- _Words of Songs_ (libretto, music by Phyllis Tate) (1985)
- _Tom's Sausage Lion_ (1986)
- _Conker_ (1987)
- _Jo-Jo, the Melon Monkey_ (1987)
- _King of the Cloud Forests_ (1988)
- _Mossop's Last Chance_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1988)
- _My Friend Walter_ (1988)
- _Albertine, Goose Queen_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1989)
- _Mr. Nobody's Eyes_ (1989)
- _Jigger's Day Off_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1990)
- _Waiting for Anya_ (1990)
- _And Pigs Might Fly!_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1991)
- _Colly's Barn_ (1991)
- _The Sandman and the Turtles_ (1991)
- _Martians at Mudpuddle Farm_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1992)
- _The King in the Forest_ (1993)
- _The War of Jenkins' Ear_ (1993)
- _Arthur, High King of Britain_ (1994)
- _Snakes and Ladders_ (1994)
- _The Dancing Bear_ (1994)
- _Blodin the Beast_ (1995)
- _Mum's the Word_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1995)
- _Stories from Mudpuddle Farm_ (with Shoo Rayner) (1995)
- _The Wreck of the Zanzibar_ (1995)
- _Robin of Sherwood_ (1996)
- _Sam's Duck_ (1996)
- _The Butterfly Lion_ (1996)
- _The Ghost of Grania O'Malley_ (1996)
- _Farm Boy_ (1997)
- _Cockadoodle-doo, Mr Sultana!_ (1998)
- _Escape from Shangri-La_ (1998)
- _Joan of Arc_ (1998)
- _Red Eyes at Night_ (1998)
- _Wartman_ (1998)
- _Kensuke's Kingdom_ (1999)
- _The Rainbow Bear_ (1999)
- _Wombat Goes Walkabout_ (1999)
- _Billy the Kid_ (2000)
- _Black Queen_ (2000)
- _Dear Olly_ (2000)
- _From Hereabout Hill_ (2000)
- _The Silver Swan_ (2000)
- _More Muck and Magic_ (2001)
- _Out of the Ashes_ (2001)
- _Toro! Toro!_ (2001)
- _Cool!_ (2002)
- _Mr. Skip_ (2002)
- _The Last Wolf_  (2002)
- _The Sleeping Sword_ (2002)
- _Gentle Giant_ (2003)
- _Private Peaceful_ (2003)
- _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (2004)
- _I Believe in Unicorns_ (2005)
- _The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips_ (2005)
- _Albatross_ (2006)
- _It's a Dog's Life_ (2006)
- _Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea_ (2006)
- _Born to Run_ (2007)
- Running Wild (2009)

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Sir Michael Morpurgo
Order of the British Empire, OBE
- **image**: Michael Morpurgo 20090315 Salon du livre 1.jpg
- **caption**: **Morpurgo** at a Paris book fair in March 2009
- **birth name**: Michael Andrew Bridge
- **birth place**: St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
- **nationality**: British nationality law, British
- **occupation**: Novelist
- **spouse**: Clare Morpurgo MBE
- **children**: 3
- **alma mater**: King's College London
- **notableworks**: _War Horse (novel), War Horse_, _Why the Whales Came_, _Private Peaceful_
- **awards**:  **OBE** MBE