Editor of Books for Keeps from 1989-1996 when it won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature. Illustrator of the winner of the Carnegie Medal, 1985; UNICEF Illustrators of the Year Award, 1992; shortlisted for the Nestle Smarties Prize, 1996. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won ... Read morenumerous 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 Seven Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Boo Show Less