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Because a Fire Was in My Head

Because a Fire Was in My Head( )
Author: Morpurgo, Michael
Illustrator: Blake, Quentin
ISBN:978-0-571-30311-3
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many different ways - through their sounds, rhythms, stories, surprises and jokes - these poems will set the fireworks crackling in our own heads. Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.961 x 7.756 x 0.394 Inches
Book Weight:0.293 Pounds
Author Biography
Morpurgo, Michael (Author)
British author Michael Morpurgo was born in St. Albans, Hertforshire in 1943. He attended the University of London and studied English and French. He became a primary school teacher in Kent for about ten years. He and his wife Clare started a charity called Farms for City Children. They currently own three farms where over 2000 children a year stay for a week and experience the countryside by taking part in purposeful farmwork.

He has published over 100 books and several screenplays. He won the 1995 Whitbread Children's Book Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, the 1996 Nestle Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion, and the 2000 Children's Book Award for Kensuke's Kingdom. Private Peaceful won the 2005 Red House Children's Book Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Five of his books have been made into movies and two have been adapted for television. He was named as the third Children's Laureate in May 2003.

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