Mudpuddle Farm: Six Animal Adventures

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Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved story makers, and Michael Morpurgo Month is a great opportunity to introduce children to wonderful stories they haven’t yet read, and to get them talking about these brilliant adventures. Not only is it perfect to support your teaching of literacy, but it’s also a great resource to complete as part of a farm topic with your young learners.

His novel War Horse has been successfully adapted as a West End and Broadway theatre play and a major film by Steven Spielberg. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. A former Children's Laureate, Michael is also the co-founder, with his wife Clare, of the charity Farms for City Children.This is a fab collection of six funny animal stories that are perfect for newly independent readers or as a transition from picture books. Each one tells the tale of different animals on an exciting adventure at the farmyard behind the tumble-down barn on Mudpuddle Farm.

Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005, and founded the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare. Albertine is safe on her island in the pond - at least so she thinks, until the fox starts swimming towards her. So when Farmer Rafferty tells him to catch twenty-six mice by sunset, all the animals have to pull together to give Mossop one last chance. a succinctly engaging tear-jerker, it is also full of happiness and affection and has a joyful ending… It is also about people who care enough to look after each other, offering a lesson in life as well as history. Created in partnership with Harper Collins, this Mudpuddle Farm Michael Morpurgo Activity Pack is perfect for use with children aged between 5-7 years old.Michael was Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005, and founded the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare.

He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award, and most recently the Blue Peter Book Award for PRIVATE PEACEFUL. Shoo Rayner has written over a hundred and fifty children’s books, and has also illustrated for other authors, including Michael Morpurgo and Michael Rosen. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It's full of lovely resources relating to Michael Morpurgo's collection of short stories ‘Six Animal Adventures'. If you are worried that like some murpurgo books this could have be a bit gloomy don't worry not like that at all.Win a family ticket to see Michael Morpurgo LIVE this summer, plus a full set of Michael Morpurgo books for your school! There are six stories in the collection: 'Mossop's Last Chance', 'Albertine Goose Queen', 'And Pigs Might Fly', 'Jigger's Day Off', 'Martians At Mudpuddle Farm', and 'Mum's The Word'. We invite teachers, librarians and home educators to submit the words your students have learnt throughout Michael Morpurgo Month 2019.