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Quote by Michael Morpurgo
When children are very young, you read them books that are positiv

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. – Michael Morpurgo

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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks youll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. – Michael Morpurgo

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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – Michael Morpurgo

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