He was awarded an OBE in 2007 and a Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours in 2018 for services to literature and charity. One of the UK’s best-loved authors and storytellers, Michael was appointed Children’s Laureate in 2003, a post he helped to set up with Ted Hughes in 1999. Michael Morpurgo, began writing stories in the early '70's, in response to the children in his class at the primary school where he taught in Kent.

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Now, many years later, as Michael is reading his Grandma Lily's diary, he learns about The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – and wonders how one adventurous cat could still affect their lives sixty years later. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself… Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But Tips, Lily's adored cat, has other ideas – barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes – lock, stock and barrel. Apart from her father being away, and the 'townie' evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. It's 1943, and Lily Tregenze lives on a farm, in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Synopsis

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