When Michael is swept off his family's yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive--until he finds he is not lone.

Le Royaume de Kensuké

A collection of six magical and heart-warming animal stories, specially for World Book Day, by the nation's favourite storyteller.

 From the author who brought you Joey the War Horse, Shadow the dog and Kaspar the cat comes a pocket-sized collection of perfect animal stories - proving that it's not just dogs that are man's best friends.

 Taken from the length of Michael Morpurgo's career, the tales in this charming book will delight any child who loves animals . or stories! Readers will return to the best mates in this little book again and again.

 From dogs to cats, and from horses to dolphins and whales, it's all here in this timeless treasury.

 Contains the stories:

 The Silver Swan

 It's a Dog's Life

 Snug

 Didn't We Have a Lovely Time?

 Dolphin Boy

 This Morning I Met a Whale

Best Mates

An enchanting take on the legend of King Arthur from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo.

 Marooned on a sandbank, a boy faces certain death. With the sea closing in and the current about to drag him to a watery grave, his final wish is to see heaven. Waking in a strange bed, the boy meets an old man sitting by the fire with his dog. It is King Arthur, the great warrior of legend, and from his lips the boy hears of Camelot, chivalry, magic, evil and betrayal.

 Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with this contemporary twist on Arthurian Legend.

 Other titles you might enjoy:

 An Eagle in the Snow

 The Fox and the Ghost King

 War Horse

 The Sleeping Sword

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 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.

Arthur High King of Britain

A spell-binding collection of short stories from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael Morpurgo.

 Explore friendship, love, revenge, life and death in the pages of From Hereabout Hill.

 Included in this collection of short stories is a poignant tale about civil war, where a young girl hides from enemy soldiers in a public toilet; a haunting story of a little girl swept out to sea while collecting cowrie shells; and the moving account of two brothers, who, over the years, create a mental picture of their absent father.

 Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master story-teller with this diverse collection of stories for children.

From Hereabout Hill

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le village de Slapton doit être évacué. Au moment du départ, la jeune Lily s'aperçoit que son chat Tips a disparu. Au péril de sa vie, elle part à sa recherche et franchit les barbelés qui entourent le village. Heureusement, Adolphus, un soldat américain, lui apporte son aide. Dès lors se noue entre eux une sincère amitié. Mais un jour, le jeune homme part au combat...

L'étonnante histoire d'Adolphus Tips

ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM. A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.  ''All my life I''ll think of you, I promise I will. I won''t ever forget you.''  Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.

The butterfly lion

Ashley Anderson vit en Chine où son père a fondé une mission et un hôpital. Sa mère est morte peu après sa naissance. La guerre entre la Chine et le Japon fait rage et le jeune garçon doit fuir. En compagnie d'Oncle Sung, un moine tibétain qui est comme son second père, il entreprend un long et périlleux voyage qui doit le mener au Tibet, puis en Inde et, de là, en Angleterre. Alors qu'ils traversent l'Himalaya, Ashley perd la trace de son compagnon. Perdu dans la neige, abandonné à lui-même, il rencontre alors une étonnante créature. Ashley est recueilli par des êtres de légende, le peuple des yétis. La vie du jeune garçon va en être transformée.

Le Roi de la forêt des brumes

Le chat Montezuma est un vrai héros ! La nature est son territoire et les hommes sont ses amis. Mais, non loin de la ferme, il va affronter neuf dangers... de mort ! Voitures lancées à toute allure, chiens bagarreurs, neige gelée : Montezuma toujours s'en sort !

Les neuf vies du chat Montezuma

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.

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