Il fait bon vivre au royaume de Danemark. Le peuple a chaud, mange à sa faim et vit en paix. Mais voilà qu'un jour, un terrible monstre surgit. C'est Grendel, qui se met à dévorer les habitants, hommes, femmes et enfants. Durant douze années, il sème le malheur dans le pays jusqu'à ce qu'arrive un héros qui ne connaît pas la peur : Beowulf. Michael Morpurgo, conteur éblouissant, fait revivre avec ce récit un très ancien célèbre poème épique.Avec un dossier qui contient :- une présentation de l'auteur- une présentation de l'œuvre- des fiches pédagogiques

Beowulf

Johnny Trott, jeune orphelin, est groom au Grand Hôtel le Savoy à Londres, où il rencontre Kaspar, un superbe chat qui devient son inséparable compagnon. Johnny se lie bientôt d'amitié avec une cliente de l'hôtel malicieuse et rebelle : la petite Lizbeth. Mais la fillette doit repartir pour l'Amérique à bord du plus beau des paquebots : le Titanic. Johnny est bien décidé à la suivre en embarquant comme passager clandestin, avec Kaspar, le "prince des chats"...

Kaspar, le chat du Grand Hôtel

«Après avoir été ambassadeur du livre pour enfants, j'ai souhaité réunir dans un recueil mes meilleures histoires, en y mêlant des réflexions sur le métier d'écrivain ainsi que sur mon travail de conteur.» Généreux, authentique, émouvant... Michael Morpurgo est aussi un merveilleux auteur, un «tisseur de rêves», qui raconte ici ses plus belles histoires... Un livre à lire selon vos envies pour découvrir et partager la magie de l'écriture et le plaisir de la lecture...

Au pays de mes histoires

A beautifully crafted chapter book by Michael Morpurgo for Egmont's red banana series.

 When Stevie Rooster is mean about Nick's old dog dying, Nick throws Stevie's best conker into the pond. But Grandma says there's a better way to get back at Stevie - become Conker King of Jubilee Park. Nick must use some conkers from the tree in the old scrapyard. And in that scrapyard is a skinny, starving dog who looks just like Nick's old pet.

 Can Nick rescue the animal and become conker champion? A moving story about grief, redemption and the love of a family pet.

 Red bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers, suitable for NC Level 3 readers. They are carefully designed with education in mind, supporting children's understanding of how to read longer books. Red bananas introduce similes and wordplay to encourage an understanding of more literary concepts.

Conker

Mes parents n'ont jamais vraiment aimé la vie à la campagne.
 Alors que moi j'adore les vacances dans la vieille ferme de grand-père. j'adore l'écouter parler de son enfance de petit paysan et de joey, son cheval. peut-être même me racontera-t-il un jour l'histoire de ce vieux tracteur auquel il tient tant. mais parfois, je sens que quelque chose le tourmente... quel est le secret de grand-père ? et comment puis-je l'aider ? la touchante histoire d'un grand-père et de son petit-fils, complices d'un secret bouleversant.

Le secret de grand-père

Je suis Rex. À la ferme il y a toujours à faire : rentrer les vaches, les moutons... Et il y a Lila, la fille du fermier. Nous étions les meilleurs amis, jusqu'à ce que le cheval arrive...

Rex, le chien de ferme

En été, le terrible dragon des montagnes crache du feu et incendie les forêts. En hiver, il déclenche des avalanches... Mais un jour, Mimi la petite paysanne trouve un bébé dragon et prend une décision très courageuse. Et la paix revient au village.Depuis, chaque veille de Noël, les villageois célèbrent le carnaval du dragon des montagnes et un conteur est tiré au sort pour l'histoire de Mimi. Voici venu le tour de Michael...

Mimi et le dragon des montagnes

A classic Christmas story from the author of War Horse and the illustrator of How to Hide a LionAs soon as the bells stop ringing, I'm going to carry you home to your mother, back up to the Mountain Dragon's castle . . .In her castle lair, high in the mountains of Switzerland, lives a terrible dragon. In the village below lives a little girl called Mimi. When Mimi finds a baby dragon in the woodshed, she makes a brave decision that will bring joy and peace to the village forever. This heartwarming holiday adventure for the whole family is the perfect combination of magic, adventure, and Christmas cheer.

L'histoire vraie de deux frères dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 

Même s'ils sont frères, Francis et Pieter ont toujours été très différents. Lorsque la guerre éclate en 1939, ils choisissent deux chemins opposés : l'un est pacifiste, l'autre s'engage comme soldat dans la Royal Air Force et part au combat. La suite de l'histoire va bouleverser leurs vies pour toujours. Et Francis doit se jeter à son tour dans la gueule du loup. 

"Ce qu'ont affronté mes deux oncles m'a profondément marqué. Ce livre est, d'une certaine façon, le plus personnel que j'aie jamais écrit." 

Michael Morpurgo 

"La voilà enfin dévoilée, la pierre fondatrice de l'ouvre de Morpurgo le pacifiste !" 

La Revue des livres pour enfants

Dans la gueule du loup

Totto est un âne. Mais cela ne lui plaît pas. Tous les jours, il porte un lourd panier de pastèques le long des canaux de Venise, sans jamais une caresse ni un mot gentil de son maître. Mais le début d'une amitié inattendue est sur le point de changer sa vie pour toujours...

Le petit âne de Venise

1847... Cette année-là, en Irlande, un terrible fléau anéantit la récolte de pommes de terre, condamnant le peuple à la famine. Sean et Annie, les deux enfants survivants du clan O'Brien n'ont qu'un seul espoir de salut : ils doivent partir retrouver leur père en Amérique. Ils s'embarquent à bord d'un navire d'émigrants. Commence alors la plus incroyable des épopées.

Le trésor des O'Brien

The acclaimed author and illustrator of SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT return with an exhilarating edition of Britain's oldest epic.Long ago there was a Scandinavian warrior who fought three evils so powerful they could destroy whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saves the land of the Danes from a merciless ogre named Grendel and then from his sea-hag mother. But it is his third terrible battle, with the death-dragon of the deep, in which he truly meets his match. Lovers of heroes, monsters, and the drama of battle will find this retelling as enthralling as it is tragic.

Longer novels from Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo are always a particular treat, and Private Peaceful is no exception. Tragic, surprising and engaging in equal measures, Morpurgo's novel charts both the childhood of young Thomas Peaceful in the early years of the 20th century, and his eventual underage enlistment in the British army to help fight the First World War. It is, above all, a poignant story of war and about all of its many life-changing effects on those involved--also the brutality of the commanding regimes and the relentless squalor of trench warfare. It's not for the squeamish--Morpurgo tells it like it was and his honest insight is on every page for all to appreciate.  "Tommo" Peaceful is recalling his childhood from those terrible battlefields. He remembers his big brother Charlie taking him to his first day of school, the death of his father, his mum working hard to keep a roof over their heads and food on their table. He remembers his brother Joe, who some called simple, but who to Tommo was very special. He also recalls the only girl in his life, Molly, and how Charlie somehow took her away from him. But as the World turned to War, he had to grow up fast. Together Charlie and Tommo enlist and are sent to France, almost immediately, to what could only be described as pure hell on Earth. Bullets, bombs, death. Shells, noise, dirt. Disease, rats, stench. Charlie and Tommo fight for their lives and to stay together--facing certain death in the face every time they try to advance the British lines.  Morpurgo rattles through his narrative at some speed, gracefully capturing both the horror of war and the ecstasy of life. The ending is shocking and memorable. This is difficult, emotionally draining but highly recommended reading. (Recommended for ages 10 and over.) --John McLay

Soldat Peaceful

Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel.

 In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story.

 War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.

 A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. Look out for Morpurgo's other war books including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow.

 War Horse is a story of universal suffering for a universal audience by a writer who 'has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers' (The Guardian).

 Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and 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.

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 Michael Morpurgo OBE was born in 1943 in St Albans and was educated at Kings Canterbury, Sandhurst and Kings College London. He taught for ten years in both state and private schools and is married with three children and six grandchildren.

 His first book was published in 1975 and he has since published over 100 titles. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. Michael's books have also been adapted for film and the stage, including most recently the National Theatre's enormously successful production of War Horse.

 Together with his wife Clare he founded Farms for City Children, an educational charity, in 1976. The organisation now runs three farms welcoming over 3, 000 children a year. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for services to youth, and in 2006 he was awarded an OBE.

 His books have won the Whitbread Award (The Wreck Of Zanzibar), the Smarties Book Prize (The Butterfly Lion), the Children's Book Award (Kensuke's Kingdom) and Cercle D'Or Prix Sorciere (King Of The Cloud Forests), the Blue Peter Book Award and the Califonia Young Reader Medal (Private Peaceful), the Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award (Alone On A Wide Wide Sea) and several have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

 Michael was Children's Laureate from 2003-2005.

War Horse

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.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Morpurgo

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