by Michael Morpurgo · Walker Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781406305746
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«Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew: A Story-maker's Journey» is Michael Morpurgo's collection of stories and essays, published by Walker Books in paperback.
The work brings together stories and essays in which Michael Morpurgo explains his craft: how to create characters, build the plot, find sources of inspiration, rewrite and look at one's own biography. Each story is accompanied by a comment on its origin; among them are those set in the Provence of «Meeting Cézanne» and in the musical Venice of «The Mozart Question».
The work was originally published in 2006; this edition is from 2007. Michael Morpurgo was Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom between 2003 and 2005. The volume has 272 pages and is in English.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 12 and for those who wish to learn the craft of storytelling.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
