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Michael Morpurgo war

Michael Morpurgo | war

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.

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Michael Morpurgo war

Michael Morpurgo | war

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the ‘pity of war’ as Wilfred Owen called it.

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Michael Morpurgo technology

Michael Morpurgo | technology

It is the child’s understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They’re still doing it today with modern technology.

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Michael Morpurgo | teacher

It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

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Michael Morpurgo positive

Michael Morpurgo | positive

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

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Michael Morpurgo peace

Michael Morpurgo | peace

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.

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Michael Morpurgo morning

Michael Morpurgo | morning

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

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Michael Morpurgo | hope

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

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Michael Morpurgo | hope

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children’s right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

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Michael Morpurgo | future

It is the child’s understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They’re still doing it today with modern technology.

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