Michelle Magorian, winner of the 2008 Costa Children's Book Award

Michelle Magorian, winner of the 2008 Costa Children's Book Award, talks about her book, Just Henry.

This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa Book Awards ceremony in London on February 2009. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.

About the book:
Set in post-war Britain, Just Henry is the story of a young boy who escapes the bleakness of life through his passion for cinema. His stepfather, whom he despises, will never compare with his dead father, a war hero. Appalled to find that his partners on a school photography trip include Jeffries, whose father went AWOL and Pip, who is illegitimate, he's about to learn that tolerance and friendship are more important than social stigmas. Processing a film that he took on the trip, Henry makes an alarming discovery. Like a bomb waiting to explode, his world is about to unravel.

About the author:
Michelle Magorian was born in Southsea, Portsmouth, of a Welsh mother and Irish father with an Armenian surname, and began writing regularly while studying at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Kent. Having studied mime with the famous Marcel Marceau, she went on to work in theatre, television and film, and toured her one-woman mime show in Italy and England. Just Henry is her first new book in ten years. Her first novel, Goodnight Mister Tom, won numerous awards and has sold in excess of 1.2 million copies in the UK alone.

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