Q&A with Michael Morpurgo

JK Rowling said she felt she had an urge to write a book for adults after the Harry Potter series. Do you have the same thoughts or do you feel you have done that already? I have read several of your books that would probably be classed as for teenagers/young adults.
For me the film of War Horse was too sentimental compared with the book. What are your thoughts?

As you have got some city farms, and you have got one in Wales, I wondered can my daughter and her children go and visit when they go over to wales. Our grandchildren are ages 11, 8, and 5. How do they find when it is open,and exactly where it is? My family and the children thought Warhorse was wonderful, and somebody told us you were doing another film , this time with a giraffe puppet in it, is this so?

Michael I am delighted to have an opportunity to say 'thank you'. My youngest son was an unenthusiastic reader until Kensuke's Kingdom switched him on to the magic of a good yarn. That particular book not only encouraged him to read for pleasure, but also captured his imagination with tales of boats and sailing. He is almost twenty one now, and currently on a Day Skipper Training Course - he's already a qualified sailing and windsurfing instructor.