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Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, 2000; finalist for NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, 2014; runner up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, 1992; shortlisted for the Nestlé Smarties Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. 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 metwith international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children'sliterature 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 is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Books in Newcastle and was