Wild at Heart - Softcover

Michael Morpurgo

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ISBN 10: 075341631X ISBN 13: 9780753416310

Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd, 2008

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Synopsis:

This is the perfect book for any wildlife enthusiast: a unique selection of over 20 stories and extracts about the animal kingdom, from the very finest writers of the genre. This carefully selected collection features writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway and Dick King-Smith. A fantastic introduction to many great writers, this is a great present for any animal-lover.It includes: "The Birds Began to Sing" - Janet Frame, "The Snow Goose" - Paul Gallico, "The Happy Prince" - Oscar Wilde, "Kes" - Barry Hines, "The Wedge-Tailed Eagle" - Geoffrey Dutton, "Godhanger" - Dick King-Smith, "Tarka the Otter" - Henry Williamson, "Charlotte's Web" - E. B.

White, "The Old Man and the Sea" - Ernest Hemingway, "The Iron Woman" - Ted Hughes, "Noah's Ark" - "The King James Bible", "The Voyage of the Beagle" - Charles Darwin, "Wolf Brother" - Chief Buffalo, "Child" - Long Lance Son-Son, "Fetches the Mule" - James Berry, "The Green Donkey Driver" - Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Call of the Wild" - Jack London, "Waiting for Anya" - Michael Morpurgo Androcles, the "Lion" - Andrew Lang, "He Was a Good Lion" - Beryl Markham, "The Cat that Walked by Himself" - Rudyard Kipling, "The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackal" - Joseph Jacobs.

About the Author:

Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He served as the Children's Laureate between 2003-2005.

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