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<\/p>\nMichael Morpurgo talked about his relatively new book called Such Stuff – it is about the story behind the story. It sounds really good. He seems to use the truth\u00a0as inspiration in many of his books for instance he told us all about the true story behind his new book\u00a0The Eagle In The Snow…<\/p>\n
Someone had told him about a man called Henry in WW1. Henry was really brave and he did really brave but slightly stupid things – stupid because they were so dangerous. For instance he used to get out of the trenches and save people. One time there had been a battle for 22 minutes and then an enemy solider had came out of the smoke. Everyone raised their guns to shoot but he had said : \u201cNo more killing\u201d and so they let him go free.\u00a0At the beginning of WW2 it turned out that the enemy they had saved that day had been a younger Adolf Hitler and all through WW2 Henry thought \u2018I could have stopped WWII if I\u2019d just killed Adolf when I had the chance that day\u2019.<\/p>\n
Morpurgo\u00a0also told the story behind Adolphus Tips which we\u2019ve listened to in the car on audio CD and loved. Mr Morpurgo had been to a funeral and then to a pub. At the pub there were pictures of black Americans from WW2 carrying furniture. He had asked the barman: \u201cWhy are they carrying furniture?\u201d and he was told about the people who\u2019d had to evacuate their towns and about a little girl who was the last to leave. She\u2019d lost her cat and after ten months they were allowed back to their houses and the cat had survived.<\/p>\n
Mr Morpurgo was funnier than we thought he\u2019d be. He said he was going to share the questions between the adults and children – even though it as a kids\u2019 event?!! – because he \u201cdidn\u2019t want the kids taking over\u201d. That made my brother laugh!<\/p>\n
Somebody asked how many books he\u2019d written and he said about 150 (I think) but that it doesn\u2019t matter about quantity it matters about quality. He asked us if we\u2019d heard of an author called\u2026 J K Rowling (ha ha!)\u2026 and used that as an example to say that because he\u2019s written over 100 books it didn\u2019t make him better than JK as she\u2019d only written seven. (She hasn\u2019t actually, she\u2019s written way more).<\/p>\n
A teacher asked what would he\u00a0do to get kids reading books and it turned out that Mr Morpurgo had once been a teacher and would read 30 minutes to his class every day. He loved it and so did the kids – and he still gets letters from old students saying it helped them love books.<\/p>\n
The talk was interesting and I really want to read both the new books.\u00a0One great fact was that Running Wild was actually true! Except that the main character was a girl in the true story – I wonder why he made it into a boy in the book? One bad thing was that no-one mentioned Prince Kaspar at all which i LITERALLY love! How insulting!<\/p>\n
By Betsi Ifans<\/p>\n
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