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Michael Morpurgo: ‘Reading is not a medicine. You don’t just have to take it’
Establishing a ‘reading culture’ is vital for pupils’ development, but schools face barriers to making this a reality, says the children’s author
General
28 March 2024
Read Michael Morpurgo’s beautiful paean to reading, books and the power of education
Speaking at the inaugural Book Trust Annual Lecture, one bestselling author says there has been a growth in reading and literacy, but it has not been all-inclusive - far from it
21 September 2016
From the horse’s mouth
To write, you have to ‘listen to people’, says Michael Morpurgo. The former teacher tells Helen Ward how a chance meeting in a pub helped inspire War Horse, now an Oscar-nominated film
2 March 2012
Break this Sats chain of failure and fear
Such tests keep staff and pupils shackled to a narrow curriculum, argues a former children’s laureate
8 May 2009
Fowl play not suspected
24 September 2004
The man on the mantelpiece
19 December 2003
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