Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
What’s really wonderful about the book is that everything is credible. I was in that barrel of apples on the deck of the Hispaniola overhearing the plans for the mutiny Long John Silver was making. Until that moment, the boy Jim thought Long John Silver was wonderful and very charismatic and here he is revealed as this dastardly character. R L Stevenson is the writer that I would like to grow up to be!
Treasure Island?
This is the first book that I ever read on my own and I take great pleasure and pride in that. It was the first book where I really identified strongly with the boy Jim in it. He was about the same age as I was when I began reading it.
What’s really wonderful about the book is that everything is credible, so much so, that I think that it was the first book where I was really able to live inside the hero of the story. I was in that barrel of apples on the deck of the Hispaniola overhearing the plans for the mutiny Long John Silver was making.
Until that moment Jim thought Long John Silver was wonderful and very charismatic and all the rest of it and here he is revealed as this dastardly character. And then Jim joins the right side and they triumph. R L Stevenson is the writer that I would like to grow up to be!
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Former Children’s Laureate and award-winning author Michael Morpurgo is widely recognised as a master storyteller and has won numerous awards for his work, including the Smarties Book Prize, the Writer’s Guild Award and the Blue Peter Book Award for Private Peaceful. Michael and his wife Clare founded the charity Farms for City Children and live in Devon. His novel War Horse was made into a highly successful play by the National Theatre and is now in its second year in the West End.
