Joey is a warhorse, but he wasn't always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert's father sells Joey to the army where the beautiful, red-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag heavy artillery, and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off of battlefields. Amongst the clamoring of guns and slogging through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?

Cheval de guerre

Cheval de Guerre

Thomas, huit ans, déteste l'école. Il préfère vagabonder dans les montagnes qui entourent son village. Un jour, sa mère le dépose la bibliothèque pour assister l'heure du conte. Le jeune garçon réticent finit par s'approcher de la "Dame à la licorne", fasciné par les histoires qu'elle raconte. Mais bientôt la guerre arrive au village et les livres sont en danger...

L'histoire de la licorne

When a 12-year-old boy discovers a skull from an upturned grave, he feels suddenly weak. The trees swirl above him and he dreams the life of Robin Hood. Michael Morpurgo transforms a traditional legend into a dramatically suspenseful adventure story with an unforgettable ending. Full color.

Robin des Bois

Noël 1914. Ce jour-là, dans les tranchées du front ouest, Jim Macpherson, un jeune soldat anglais, écrit à sa fiancée pour lui raconter l'incroyable événement qu'il vient de vivre...

La trêve de Noël

Solitaire, timide, Jonah est trop occupé à prendre soin de sa mère pour se faire des amis à l'école. Mais une rencontre magique va tout changer : le fantôme d'un homme du XVIIIe siècle, Nathaniel. Orphelin, Nathaniel a croisé la route de Mozart. Jeux, répétitions, concerts, il a tout partagé avec le petit prodige.

Le jour où j'ai sauvé Wolfgang Amadeus

The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller.

 May, 1915.

 Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost. and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy.

 Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even - as some islanders suggest - a German spy.?

 Only one thing is for sure: she loves music and moonlight, and it is when she listens to the gramophone that the glimmers of the girl she once was begin to appear.

 WW1 is raging, suspicion and fear are growing, and Alfie and Lucy are ever more under threat. But as we begin to see the story of Merry, a girl boarding a great ship for a perilous journey across the ocean, another melody enters the great symphony - and the music begins to resolve.

 A beautiful tour de force of family, love, war and forgiveness, this is a major new novel from the author of PRIVATE PEACEFUL - in which what was once lost may sometimes be found, washed up again on the shore.

Listen to the Moon

La lettre de mon grand-père

En 1947, le tout jeune Arthur, séparé de sa soeur Kitty, est embarqué, comme des milliers d'autres orphelins, sur un bateau pour l'Australie. Sa vie est désormais là-bas, jalonnée d'épreuves, de rencontres extraordinaires, et illuminée par sa passion de la mer. Des années plus tard, Allie, la fille d'Arthur, s'apprête à accomplir une traversée en solitaire. Son but : franchir les océans pour gagner l'Angleterre et retrouver sa tante Kitty.

Seul sur la mer immense

This first new novel in two years from the Nation's Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue - an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two.

 Australian-Greek girl Nandi travels to her ancestors' home in Ithaca, and discovers - through a friendship with an extremely unusual flying fish - the extraordinary story of her great-aunt Elena; of how she fell in love, in the hardest of times, and how of how she became an unsung hero of World War Two.

 But Elena has gone missing, and Nandi has to find her. In her search, she will discover that Elena was an even greater hero than she thought - and still is.

 Nandi's story is a beautiful and inspiring tale of personal discovery, of love and place and belonging, threaded through with the quiet heroism of everyday people. Stunningly illustrated throughout by acclaimed artist George Butler, and full of magic, myth and mystery, it is a classic Morpurgo novel that will move and thrill every reader who loved Private Peaceful and War Horse, and combines all the hallmarks of this beloved Master Storyteller.

When Fishes Flew - The Story of Elena’s War

Été 1914. Dans la ferme de son père, en Angleterre, Albert grandit en compagnie de son cheval, Joey. En France, la petite Émilie joue dans un verger avec ses frères. En Allemagne, Friedrich travaille comme à l'accoutumée dans sa boucherie. Pendant ce temps, d'immenses armées se préparent à s'affronter dans le cauchemar de la guerre…

Michael Morpurgo, né le 5 octobre 1943 à St Albans, en Angleterre, est un auteur britannique, notamment connu pour ses ouvrages de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse souvent liés à des événements historiques.

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