Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories: Oxford Level 10: Fabulous Fables

Winner of the the Surrey Book Award, 2012; winner of the Lancashire Schools Fantastic Book Award; awarded Blue Peter 'Book of the Month'; awarded Radio 4 Open Book 'Book of the Year'. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and afilm. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, includingfor the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Books in Newcastle and was a founder-member of the UK Childrens Laureate.

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