Michael Morpurgo is the author of more than fifty books for children. He has won the Whitebread Children's Novel Award and the Smarties Book Prize and has had several of his novels adapted for film and television. A former teacher, Michael cares passionately about literature for children, and he was a driving force behind setting up the Children's Laureateship, launched in 1999. He lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children.

Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne; Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown; Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie; Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl; The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo; The Iron Man - Ted Hughes; Just William - Richmal Crompton; The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis; Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce; The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling; My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George; Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson; Beowulf: Dragonslayer - Rosemary Sutcliff; Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.