![]() ![]() ![]() He left teaching after ten years in order to set up ‘Farms for City Children’ with his wife. After a brief and unsuccessful spell in the army, he took up teaching and started to write. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1943, he was evacuated to Cumberland during the last years of the Second World War, then returned to London, moving later to Essex. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. Movie Trailer for Private Peaceful (2012) Tonight, I want very much to believe that there’s a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again. Too young to be enlisted, Thomas has followed his brother to war and now, every moment he spends thinking about his life, means another moment closer to danger. For young Private Peaceful, looking back over his childhood while he is on night watch in the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside: his mother, Charlie, Big Joe, and Molly, the love of his life. ![]()
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