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Winner of the Heidelberg Leander Heidelberg Prize, 2005; shortlisted for Ottakars Children's Book Prize. Illustrator of the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story with Pictures, 2011; illustrator of the Blue Peter Book Award for Most Fun Story with Pictures, 2010; illustrator of the winner of the Portsmouth Book Award, 2010. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and wasthe 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 a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of ChildrensLiterature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for 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

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