Celebrated children's author Michael Morpurgo—perhaps best known for War Horse, recently adapted by Steven Spielberg into a clunky blockbuster—has found himself at the center of a controversy surrounding a recent deal he struck with McDonald's. For a limited time, Happy Meals in the UK will include one of six books from Morpurgo's Mudpuddle Farm series, presumably replacing whatever shitty plastic choking-hazard horse toy would have normally been left at the bottom of the bag.
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