#Michael Morpurgo

[dragon--ashes]

WELCOME to part 2 of "my supervisor made me do it" (me-throwing-my-friend-in-the-ocean-in-november edition.)

Supervisor said to me "Eloise if you were any more shy you'd be underground" so yeah there's that😃I don't think she's seen me online.

She says I need to get comfortable posting things in places regardless of interaction or not. I tried putting her off this idea by mentioning crap and old projects from back in college (not uni, I was like 16/17) that are unlisted. She said that it's even better to post crap and old stuff because it means I'll be more confident at posting the good stuff🙄

So yeah, don't try to outhink lecturers, they know better than you and are more stubborn than even I am.

(She's great really she just likes getting me out of my comfort zone and I don't.)

So here's the time I threw my actor friend in the sea, in November, and in a wedding dress back in '23 for a book trailer for 'listen to the moon' set in 1915 (hence old-timey 4:3 ratio).

This is a one minute segment of the whole 4 minute video which I can't post because it has my ✨️last name✨️ in it, which I can't change because muggins over here didn't save the og video before uploading.

Tbh the whole video is probably my second best work (104/120 marks👀) and I'm still proud of creating the overlay template independently and blending it with the lighting corruption on premiere🫠 (took 5 hours but meh). Not proud of the sound mixing here but the rough cut is...er...rough I guess-?

And from nearly two years ago. Now I have to use avid EURGH

But yes here have this shit.

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

All i've thought about for the last five years is war horse the play and no one on this godforsaken app has ever heard of it

[bespectacled-bookwyrm]

I finished The Near Witch yesterday.

It was. . . average. And a case where the romantic plot could be removed and the plot would barely change. It felt like it was there just for the sake of being there, rather than a driving point of the plot.

Anyway! I'm going to start reading Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo today.

[almathoraleydis]

The fox and the ghost king

Ilustration for Michael Morpurgo's book The fox and the ghost king. Involves a young fox and his dad who encounter the ghost of Richard iii.

[upslapmeal]

just found out that one of my absolute favourite books as a kid has been made into an animated film and watching the trailer already made me cry. so that's a great start

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Kensuke's Kingdom | Author: Michael Morpurgo | Publisher: Farshore (2023)

[aromanticduck]

Didn't realise at first that Michael Morpurgo had done a retelling of Beowulf for children and was like... you're reading what in year 5 English?

[fanofthebookwormreviews]

kensuke's kingdom

here’s a link to buy the book- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kensukes-Kingdom-Michael-Morpurgo/dp/1405221747/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453128485&sr=1-1&keywords=kensuke%27s+kingdom

[throughdarkeningskies]

the childhood experience of being traumatised by michael morpurgo books

[marybellious]

This is a love language. Too bad it was already late when I realized it.

I read the book you were talking about just a month after I stopped talking to you and practically ghosted the hell out of you. It was "Kensuke's Kingdom" by Michael Morpurgo which I argued was a children's book so I hesitated on reading. But you keep on insisting it's philosophical and that I might learn a thing or two. Still, I didn't give in.

But I tried checking out the book and after figuring out there are illustrations in it, I immediately dropped it and told you it wasn't to my liking. You insisted still.

"It's a great book," you said. "Everything about Morpurgo is great."

But at that time, I was so stubborn and didn't wanna try reading even a single line. Instead, what I did was introduce you to the classics. I told you about George Orwell, the Bronte sisters, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Whitman, and my favorite Sylvia Plath. And you read a book from each one of them...without hesitation, without questions, without delay.

Fast forward to a couple of months, and I think I started to realize I was slowly developing feelings for you. And no matter how hard I try to resist, it just grows and grows and grows. And being the avoidant that I am, my immediate response was to cut you off of my life to regulate my emotions and bring back the peace in my head and heart without thinking twice.

And so I cut you off. Without explanation. Without giving you a chance to ask why. Without even thinking about how it might affect you.

For weeks I was doing okay trying to get used to the days without you in them. But day after day, I know I was also yearning for the type of relationship we had even when I was too proud to admit it. And weeks went on, and I just found myself reading back on our conversation and making sure I don't accidentally hit heart to a thread that was over a month ago.

And I guess that's when I spot it. "Kensuke's Kingdom" by Michael Morpurgo. With a photo of the book cover and a link where I can read it for free.

Without hesitation, I clicked on the link, got routed to a website, and read the whole book in just one sitting.

So, yeah. I finally read the book you kept on talking about. And now I see why you liked it. Now I know why you think that way and talk that way and believe things that way. I understand you now. And I kinda wanna talk about this book to you, too, because in a way, I wanna talk about Morpurgo, too.

[ssjandtechno]

These things were so much more meaningful than any real or CGI horse ever could be. It's minutes before you stop seeing the puppeteers and just see the horse From Nick Stafford's stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book War Horse.

genuinely, i think watching live theatre can improve your media literacy so much

like people who look at doctor who and are like 'lol the effects are so rubbish'

maybe watch a stage play where there's no backdrops and half the characters are played by the same three guys in different hats and maybe you will calm down

[ald0-raine2]

Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo audiobook read by Cillian Murphy do you see my vision

[centrestagereviews]

Review: War Horse - UK Tour

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The year is 1914 and German troops have just swept into Luxembourg and Belgium. Thus begins what history refers to as “The Great War”, otherwise know as World War 1. Over the following 4 years, loss and destruction obliterated Europe and drastically changed the world. When we refer to the lives lost or sacrificed to the war, we’re generally referring to the lost of human life. We have…

[lolochaponnay]

[reviews-sky]

New book review!

The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo

[bookz-blogzz]

A Book I Read Over And Over

Michel Morpurgo's Alone on a Wide Wide Sea