Un jeune garçon difficile est placé en maison de correction. Lors de ses exercices quotidiens, il longe avec bonheur l'enclos des chevaux. Le responsable des écuries le remarque et lui confie Dombey, un cheval ayant subi de mauvais traitements. Une relation de confiance et une véritable amitié s'instaurent entre le garçon et l'animal.

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As soon as the bells stop ringing, I¹m going to carry you home to your mother, back up to the Mountain Dragon's castle .

 Mimi and the Mountain Dragon is a beautifully poignant and atmospheric Christmas story from War Horse author Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Helen Stephens, the talent behind How to Hide a Lion from Grandma.

 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 she finds a baby dragon in the woodshed, she makes a brave decision that will bring joy and peace to the village for ever.

 A heart-warming Christmas adventure, that all the family can share. The perfect combination of magic, adventure and Christmas cheer - and makes an ideal festive stocking filler for kids aged 5 and up. Look out for Michael's other Christmas classics The Goose is Getting Fat, The Best of Times, The Best Christmas Present in the World and On Angel Wings.

 Michael Morpurgo is the master storyteller of Kensuke's Kingdom, An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. Michael has written more than a hundred books 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.

 Helen Stephens is the award winning illustrator of How to Hide a Lion, Fleabag and The Night Iceberg (Alison Green Books). Known for her line work and bright and instantly recognisable illustrations, Helen has both collaborated with authors (Sophie Hannah, Roger McGough and Michael Morpurgo) and written and illustrated her own picture books including The Big Adventures of the Smalls and the Betsey series, both with Egmont. Helen lives in Northumberland, by the sea, with her family.

Mimi and the Mountain Dragon

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

Londres, 1940. Un jeune garçon et sa mère, qui ont perdu leur maison dans un bombardement, prennent le train pour se réfugier à la campagne. Mais les raids aériens s'intensifient et l'obligent à s'arrêter dans un tunnel. Pour passer le temps, un inconnu entré dans leur compartiment commence à leur raconter l'incroyable histoire de son meilleur ami, Billy.Septembre 1918... Billy et son bataillon livrent leur dernière bataille dans un village du Nord de la France. De nombreux soldats allemands sont faits prisonniers. Soudain, l'un d'eux émerge, hagard, des ruines et Billy ordonne qu'on lui laisse la vie sauve. Qui était ce soldat dont le regard devait le hanter toute sa vie ?L'histoire vraie du soldat qui aurait pu empêcher la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Un aigle dans la neige

Amanda vit en Australie, loin du pays de ses ancêtres : la Grèce, et plus précisément la célèbre île d'Ithaque. Une fois ses études terminées et suite à une rencontre extraordinaire, elle part en quête de ses racines et de l'histoire de sa famille. Elle y découvrira la vie de sa grand-tante Elena pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et jusqu'à aujourd'hui : son aïeule était et demeure une héroïne plus incroyable que tout ce qu'Amanda aurait jamais pu imaginer.

Un été à Ithaque - L'odyssée de Nandi

A gripping children's story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

 "We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again.. Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Laura's twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems there's little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks, and everything changes .

 The Wreck of the Zanzibar is a gripping historical adventure from the author of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden.

 Michael Morpurgo is the master storyteller of such modern classic children's books as War Horse, Friend or Foe, Private Peaceful, and Kensuke's Kingdom. He 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.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

In 1907, fourteen-year-old Laura, living with her family on one of the stormy Isles of Scilly, records in her diary how her dream of participating in a shipwreck rescue is finally realized.

Le Naufrage Du Zanzibar

"Je suis probablement le pantin le plus célèbre que le monde ait jamais connu. Vous savez sûrement pourquoi mon nez s'allonge... Mais vous ne connaissez pas ma véritable histoire ! C'est pourquoi j'ai pensé qu'il était temps pour moi, Pinocchio, de vous la raconter avec mes propres mots. Vous pourrez voir que, quelle que soit notre nature, pour nous tous, grandir est une période difficile mais passionnante..."

Pinocchio raconte Pinocchio

Je suis Rex. A 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...

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