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Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Michael Morpurgo
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Michael Morpurgo
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 1
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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo
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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
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