urn:lcp:kingofcloudfores0000morp_h3u3:epub:79fdb1f1-f99a-4b1d-b215-216e3012df1d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier kingofcloudfores0000morp_h3u3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8cg9tq4x Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780603568398 The book I chose to read was “King of the Cloud Forest” written by Michael Morpurgo. This book is adventure fiction, I usually don’t enjoy adventure fiction but I enjoyed this book because Michael Morpurgo is an incredible author. I have loved all of Michael Morpurgo's books so I decided to try this one. In November 2016 Michael Morpurgo won the J M Barrie Award for his contribution to children’s literature.This award is given every year by Action for Children’s Arts to a “children’s arts practitioner” whose lifetime’s work has delighted children and will stand the test of time.

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849, the eldest daughter of a family which emigrated to America in 1865 after the father's death. Interested in making up stories from her childhood, Frances turned to writing professionally when the family's fortunes continued to decline in post-Civil-War Tennessee. She first won popular and critical success with her novel That Lass O' Lowries (1876-7), and consolidated it with a series of popular novels and plays. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was the most successful in her own lifetime, but she is probably most admired today for her children's classics A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). Two unhappy marriages marred Mrs Hodgson Burnett's private life but she became an American citizen in 1905 and settled in Long Island until her death in 1924.The Author Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical MomentsA young boy escapes from China after the Japanese invasion and starts on a journey thru Tibet, Nepal and India to England. Through snow clad mountains and many storms, he fights the cold and hunger and comes across wolves and the yeti... he lives with the yeti for an year and learns about their life and their ways - his experience with the Yeti touches his life as nothing else... and he finds that many years ago a young doctor (who later won the novel prize for medicine) had lived with the yeti for three years... and the yeti had mistaken him for the old doctor from the past... the two share a bond and an experience and such comradeship that is more precious to them than anything else... they remember their simplicity and honesty that is beyond what we can aspire for... Morpurgo added: “Storymakers and storytellers like Barrie, and like all the previous winners of this award, have given us the hope and faith children need, we need, to keep flying, have sustained us through dark and troubled times, have banished doubt. To touch the lives of children, to witness their listening and reading silence, is reward enough in itself. This is simply the icing on the cake.” When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them – Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen – has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone’s return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood? For more information about the work of Farms for City Children, please visit www.farmsforcitychildren.org David Wood, chair of Action for Children’s Arts, said Morpurgo is “one of our greatest storytellers”.

A classic and heartfelt war story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. Michelle was born in 1947 in Portsmouth, Hampshire of a Welsh mother and Irish father with an Armenian Surname! Michelle Spent her toddler years in Singapore and two-and-a-half years (aged 7-9) in Australia. In between times, up to the age of eighteen, she lived in Portsmouth. She was educated at Kilbreda college, Mentone (Victoria, Australia) and the Covent of the Cross, Waterlooville, Hampshire. Michelle trained for the theatre at The Rose Bruford College of speech and drama in Kent from 1968to 1969. It was while there that she started writing regularly. Michelle's first novel Goodnight Mister Tom grew out of two short stories. She wrote the book in between acting jobs and on Sunday when she was working in the theatre. Goodnight Mister Tom was first published in the UK in 1981 it has won numerous awards including the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. The book has sold in excess of 1.2 MILLION copies in the UK alone and in 1998 BAFTA award-winning TV film of the book starring John Thaw attracted 14 MILLION viewers. Of course he has a rough time. Forced out of China by the Japanese invasion in the company of his mentor, Uncle Sung, he has to retreat into the high mountains of Tibet and Nepal. Then trapped alone in a howling blizzard he is taken by a tribe of high mountain creatures, perhaps yetis, but not quite human and comes to be treated as the re-embodiment of their almost supernatural, white-skinned god-cum-ruler of years earlier. Michael Morpurgo has thrilled and delighted huge numbers of young readers since becoming a children’s author in the early 1970s," Wood said. "Action for Children’s Arts is delighted to recognise Michael’s outstanding contribution by presenting him with the J M Barrie Award 2016. His work will undoubtedly, like Peter Pan, stand the test of time, making him a truly worthy recipient of this award." Lynne Reid Banks is a best-selling author for children and adults. Her classic children’s novel ‘The Indian in the Cupboard’ has sold nearly six million copies worldwide. She was born in London in 1929 and worked as an actress, writer and TV news reporter. Lynne has written thirty books: her first, ‘The L-Shaped Room’, was published in 1960. She now lives in Dorset, where she continues to write. Lynne says that writing for children comes much more easily than writing for adults.Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas. Then Ashley finds himself alone in the hostile mountains, battling for his life. He is just about to give up all hope, when he has a mysterious and terrifying encounter … Michael's books have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Bulgarian and Hungarian, Hebrew and Japanese. He travels all over the UK and abroad talking to people of all ages at literary festivals, telling his stories and encouraging them to tell theirs. A son and grandson of actors, Michael has acting in his blood and enjoys collaborating and performing live adaptations of his books at festivals, concerts and theatres. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - The old imperialism has gone. Young Ashley respects the people around him and is upset when they do not respect him – and it is not all due to his father's religious teaching. Ashley is a British boy of our time rather than the 1930s. If there is a failing in the book it is that: Ashley would not have done well growing up in the Empire.