My inspiration: Michelle Magorian on Arthur Ransome

Swallows And Amazons, by Arthur Ransome – the inspiration for Goodnight Mister Tom author Michelle Magorian. Photograph: Moviestore Collection/REX/Moviestore Collection/REX

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 came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia.

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