Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 2006; winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize, 2006; awarded Bronze in the UK Primary Teacher Awards 2015; winner of the Beehive Book Award, Young Adult Division, 2012. Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award, 2004; shortlisted for Kate Greenaway Award, 2002. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most ... Read morewell-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 International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Sev Show Less