Morpurgo

The American director and his wife keep horses, said Morpurgo, which is one of the reasons they were interested in the story of a Devon boy who travels to the Western Front to try to find his beloved horse Joey.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sameer Rahim 2011

Former prisoners of conscience, activists and supporters, including the children's author Michael Morpurgo and the actors Eva Birthistle, Tim McInnerny and Julian Rhind-Tutt, sat beneath banners illustrated with the faces of some of the 50,000 prisoners of conscience whose ordeals in the jails and torture rooms of corrupt regimes have been highlighted by Amnesty and its three million members.

Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech 2011

This coming Oscar season will see his first animated movie, a project waited on for so many years, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse, taken from the Michael Morpurgo novel.

David Thomson on JJ Abrams 2011

The fortunes of horses that were requisitioned from fields all over Britain in 1914 and deployed in combat during first world war were the inspiration for Morpurgo's story and led to the genesis of the trust in October 1930.

Spielberg's film of War Horse gives new impetus to animal charity 2011

Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, it will also become a movie directed by Steven Spielberg this coming holiday season, though that adaptation will apparently not include puppets.

Dining Out With Britain's Emergent Equine Marshall Heyman 2011

Children's laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen (pictured) each selected seven books but have favoured the classics over the modern era.

Children's laureates choose their classics (UK) 2009

Michael Morpurgo: One of the things that frightened me about writing when I was a small boy is that I had no ideas and no imagination.

On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft 2011

The film—based on a Michael Morpurgo novel that was later turned into the play—can push the bounds of realistic horse behavior.

The Four-Legged Stars of 'War Horse' Ellen Gamerman 2011

I mentioned "War Horse" to Stacey and she got right on a plane to see the play based on the Michael Morpurgo novel.

The Auteur and the Executive 2011

The play, adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, is a production of the National Theater of Great Britain with the Handspring Puppet Company, founded by the South African duo Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones.

A Harmony of the Head, Heart–and Haunch Pia Catton 2011