Michaela Morgan
{{short description|British children's author and poet}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
Michaela Morgan is a British children's author and poet. She has written more than 150 titles between 1987 and 2018 and publishes between two and three new titles each year. These range from picture books to junior novels.{{cite web|url=http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n87-945273|title=Morgan, Michaela|accessdate=7 April 2010|publisher=WorldCat Identities}} Her work is published internationally, and is also included on the Signed Stories web site where books are performed in sign language for hearing-impaired children.{{cite web|url=http://www.signedstories.com/world/browseall/index.cfm#/player/Brave_Mouse|title=Signed Stories|accessdate=7 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218144537/http://www.signedstories.com/world/browseall/index.cfm#/player/Brave_Mouse|archive-date=18 February 2010|url-status=dead}}
Awards
Morgan was shortlisted in the Blue Peter Book Award 2013{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/articles/blue-peter-book-awards-2013|title=Blue Peter Book Awards 2013|publisher=BBC (CBBC)|accessdate=17 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113030243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/articles/blue-peter-book-awards-2013|archivedate=13 January 2013}} and named an [https://web.archive.org/web/20090430234325/http://www.reading.org/Libraries/Choices/cc2008_bookmark.sflb.ashx International Reading Association Children's Choice] (2008). She won the United Kingdom Reading Association (now United Kingdom Literacy Association)'s 1995 Award.
In 2008, she was shortlisted in the Birmingham Libraries Award, 2008{{cite web|url=http://www.myvotes.bgfl.org/35/index.cfm?p=comment&cid=338&zz=2010054164950|title=Birmingham Libraries KS3 Dares 2008|accessdate=4 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725065718/http://www.myvotes.bgfl.org/35/index.cfm?p=comment&cid=338&zz=2010054164950|archive-date=25 July 2011|url-status=dead}} for Respect (Barrington Stoke) about the black First World War hero, Walter Tull{{cite web|url=http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/search.asp?mid=323&cid=9444|title=Respect|accessdate=4 May 2010|website=barringtonstoke.co.uk|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929234518/http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/search.asp?mid=323&cid=9444|archivedate=29 September 2011}} and the Surrey Libraries Award 2009{{cite web|url=http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/Night+flight+by+Michaela+Morgan?opendocument|title=Morgan, Michaela|accessdate=4 May 2010|publisher=Surrey Libraries|website=surreycc.gov.uk}} for Night Flight.{{cite web|url=http://www.lovereading4kids.com/book/3397/Night-Flight-by-Michaela-Morgan.html|title=Night Flight review|accessdate=4 May 2010}}
In 2017, Morgan's edited collection of poems, entitled Wonderland: Alice in Poetry, was shortlisted for the Clippa Poetry Award.{{cite web |title=Wonderland: Alice in Poetry |url=https://clpe.org.uk/books/book/wonderland-alice-poetry |publisher=CLPE |access-date=8 December 2024}}
History
She started her career with the Edward series of picture books in the mid-1980s, having previously worked as a teacher and run her own shop. She works with a wide variety of publishers, though some of her longest running titles have been the Cool Clive{{cite web|url=http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/education/primary/literacy/independentreading/9780199179930.do?keyword=Michaela+Morgan&sortby=bestMatches&page=2&thumbby=10&crawlpage=1&thumbby_crawl=10|title=Cool Clive|accessdate=4 May 2010|website=ukcatalogue.oup.com}} books with Oxford University Press.
Her latest titles include Charming,{{cite web|url=http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/Charming.html|title=Charming|accessdate=8 May 2017|website=barringtonstoke.co.uk|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140617121204/http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/Charming.html|archivedate=17 June 2014}} Never shake a rattle snake,{{cite web|url=http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&BookID=415997|title=Never shake a rattle snake|accessdate=4 May 2010|website=panmacmillan.com}} illustrated by the award-winning artist Nick Sharratt, and Walter Tull's Scrapbook.{{cite web|url=http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/isbn/9781847802125|title=Walter Tull's Scrapbook|accessdate=13 January 2013|website=alibris.co.uk}}
References
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External links
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
- {{official|michaelamorgan.com}}
- {{LCAuth|n87945273|Michaela Morgan|19|ue}}
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Category:English children's writers
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)