Children's Laureate from 2001-2004; received an OBE for services to literature in 2003; winner of the Carnegie Medal, 1989 and 1992; winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 1990; Nestle Smarties Book Prize Ages 6-8, 1990; winner of the Whitbread Award, 1993 and 1996; awarded Children's Author of the Year by the British Book Awards 1991 and 1994; finalist for ... Read morethe Hans Christian Andersen Award for Children's Books, 1998. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the Internation Show Less