All Aboard the Story Time Express Michael Morpurgo
Event details
Iris knows everything there is to know about Flying Scotsman. Her dad is the famous train’s driver, and every year her favourite birthday treat is a trip to see him at work. But each time Flying Scotsman pulls away, Iris wishes more than anything that she could be in the driver’s cab, just like her dad. Then again, who’s to stop her…
It’s full steam ahead with children’s author Michael Morpurgo as he reads from his much-loved book Flying Scotsman and the Best Birthday Ever - from a locomotive!
School and home-educated children are invited aboard our story time express for an online journey into the golden age of steam travel. Enjoy an inspiring tale celebrating the world’s most iconic train, Flying Scotsman, and its greatest fan, a young girl named Iris.
Surrounded by the gleam of brass at York's National Railway Museum, Michael will read excerpts from his book and answer questions about his life and inspiration.
Flying Scotsman and the Best Birthday Ever is beautifully illustrated by Michael Foreman and is published in association with the National Railway Museum.
Please note, this event is for schools and home-educator groups, not for the general public.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
This event is presented with the generous support of LNER
Image credit: Michael Foreman/Thames & Hudson
About the speaker
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain’s best loved writers for children with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Award. In 2005, he won the Blue Peter Book Award for his novel Private Peaceful, which was also adapted into an acclaimed stage play. His subsequent book, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, spent an astonishing 20 weeks in the bestseller charts. His many other loved works include The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Why the Whales Came, The Mozart Question, Shadow, War Horse and Born to Run. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded 50 years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 60,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
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