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Michael Morpurgo is the former Children’s Laureate and bestselling author of over 120 books including Private Peaceful, The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom and War Horse, which is now being made into a film by Dreamworks. Michael talks about his life as a storyteller and about his new books An Elephant in the Garden and Not Bad for a Bad Lad. Michael has been a soldier, teacher, farmer, novelist, but his favourite role is that of storyteller. When he first began teaching in primary schools in the 1960’s he quickly realized that the way to get the attention of bored, alienated children was to tell stories. Suitable for family audience and children of 8+