Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a literary and children’s fiction author. He has played a crucial role in developing children books which have seen him being awarded numerous awards among them The Smarties Prize, Blue Peter Award and also The Writers Guild Award. As children’s laureate from 2003 and 2005 he traveled all over the UK and later on named The Booksellers Association author of The Year.

The best place to start is the Mudpuddle Farm series, the earliest of Michael Morpurgo's multi-book series: it opens with Martians at Mudpuddle Farm (1983) and runs to 8 books across 1983–2018, ending with Hee-Haw Hooray! (2018). Michael Morpurgo's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Michael Morpurgo has 228 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1974 and 2026. 51 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Sprinters series with 33 books — and 177 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Michael Morpurgo's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are War Horse (1982–1997, 2 books), Mudpuddle Farm (1983–2018, 8 books) and Sprinters (1991–2010, 33 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Michael Morpurgo's 228 books into 5 named series and 177 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Sprinters (33 books, 1991–2010); Mudpuddle Farm (8 books, 1983–2018); Red Hot Reads (6 books, 1996–1999); Muck & Magic (2 books, 1995–2001); War Horse (2 books, 1982–1997).