We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.
Michael MorpurgoWe have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.
Michael MorpurgoI tell you, my friends,โ he said one day. โI tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. Itโs the others that are mad, but they donโt know it. They fight a war and they donโt know what for. Isnโt that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And itโs me they call mad!
Michael MorpurgoChildren have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Michael Morpurgo