Speaking on Times Radio, the former children's laureate said: “What you have to do is tell the same story, but tell it in a way that the children in the 21st century can read. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. The writer has suggested that instead of wholesale rewrites or the purging of language from classic books, modern authors could reimagine the stories of the past in a way that would take account of contemporary sensitivities. You just cannot go on rewriting Dickens and rewriting Shakespeare to suit people.” “I think that it's really important for children to read books and have some sense of when the books were written. If you start the nitpicking, you never stop.
The author of War Horse said: “We've learnt a lot that's been very good, we've learnt a lot that's rubbish. Morpurgo’s comments were made after The Telegraph revealed that the works of Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie, Ian Fleming, and PG Wodehouse have been edited to avoid causing offence. The author said that you “cannot go on rewriting to suit people” when it comes to potentially dated language in classic texts.
Once, long ago, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC DL (n Bridge 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). All around me, men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain.” Flashing swords are nothing against machine guns, and graceful Joey turns out to be of more use as a cart horse than an officer’s mount.Sir Michael Morpurgo has warned publishers against rewriting classic books for modern sensitivities and to stop “nitpicking” over language. Joey is a war horse, but he wasnt always. He tells of an early skirmish: “The first terrible shells fell among us and the machine guns opened up. Reprinted to coincide with a hit stage adaptation in London, “War Horse” is now being made into a film by Steven Spielberg and will be staged at Lincoln Center in the spring.Īlthough a first-person animal narrator asks a lot of the reader, Joey’s voice - unsentimental and brave under fire - amplifies the emotional impact of the story. Albert, who is too young to enlist, vows to follow Joey into battle. War Horse Teaching Resources - Michael Morpurgo War Horse Teaching Resources Download the complete teaching resources pack now. Michael Morpurgo’s superb 1982 young adult novel War Horse (Scholastic, paper, $6.99) follows Joey, a half-Thoroughbred farm horse, as he is separated from his 15-year-old owner, Albert, and taken to France in 1914 with a British cavalry unit. War Horse study guide contains a biography of Michael Morpurgo, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
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