Michael Morpurgo Collection - Softcover

Michael Morpurgo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0603568343 ISBN 13: 9780603568343

Publisher: Dean & Son, 2012

Synopsis

Poet, playwright and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo is one of the great storytellers, whose prize-winning books for children include the famous War Horse and Whitbread Children's Book Award-winner The Wreck of the Zanzibar. These two are among the eight titles in this set for older readers: the others are Kensuke's Kingdom, Long Way Home, Mr Nobody's Eyes, Why the Whales Came, King of the Cloud Forests and Escape from Shangri-La. Age 9+ Slip-cased set. Age 9+

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Morpurgo Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience" many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dean & Son
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0603568343
• ISBN 13: 9780603568343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1440