2025
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Spring. 1st March. There is snow on the high tors of Dartmoor, and mountains of clouds are building up over the moor and coming our way. I know it is spring, only because it is March now, the first day, and because snowdrops and daffodils and primroses are everywhere. So it must be spring... Michael Morpurgo has lived on Nethercott farm in Devon for more than 40 years. In Spring, he observes the changing season, as new shoots emerge and seeds are sown, lambs are born and blossom flowers overhead. We accompany him on walks, encounters with animals, and his local community. He reminiscences about childhood and springs gone by. This is a burst of springtime joy from one of the nation's best loved authors.
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Michael Morpurgo
Author · 142 books
Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. 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. After a brief and unsuccessful spell in the army, he took up teaching and started to write. He left teaching after ten years in order to set up 'Farms for City Children' with his wife. They have three farms in Devon, Wales and Gloucestershire, open to inner city school children who come to stay and work with the animals. In 1999 this work was publicly recognised when he and his wife were invested a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to youth. In 2003, he was advanced to an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2004. He was knighted in the 2018 for his services to literature and charity. He is also a father and grandfather, so children have always played a large part in his life. Every year he and his family spend time in the Scilly Isles, the setting for three of his books.
