At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer. — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.” — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.” — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
“Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom” — Michelle Magorian Copy Share
