C'était la chance de ma vie ! J'allais me rendre à Venise pour interviewer le grand violoniste Paolo Levi. Mais je savais qu'il ne fallait surtout pas prononcer devant lui le nom de Mozart. Comment imaginer alors l'histoire qu'il allait me raconter : son histoire, un secret dont il pouvait enfin se libérer...La musique réveille l'écho d'un passé terrible pour nous plonger au coeur de la nuit la plus noire. Un récit très fort porté par une écriture simple, pudique, et les aquarelles émouvantes de Michael Foreman.

Plus jamais Mozart

"Je m'appelle Pinocchio. Je suis la marionnette la plus célèbre au monde. Vous savez sûrement pourquoi mon nez s'allonge... Mais vous ne connaissez pas ma véritable histoire. Le moment est venu de vous la raconter."

Michael Morpurgo est un merveilleux conteur. Après avoir adapté "Le Roi Arthur", il redonne vie à Pinocchio en le laissant narrer ses aventures avec verve et fantaisie. Emma Chichester Clark allie fraîcheur et poésie pour illustrer ce récit, avec son talent inimitable.

Un Pinocchio inoubliable, à l'humour mordant, pour les jeunes lecteurs d'aujourd'hui: un grand classique à redécouvrir.

Pinocchio raconte Pinocchio

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

Quand il apprend qu'il va séjourner à la ferme avec sa classe, Sam n'est pas enchanté. Quitter sa ville et son cher grand-père, pour toute une semaine ! Mais une fois là-bas, la présence des animaux et le travail auprès des fermiers vont le transformer, au point de lui faire ramener de la campagne un souvenir très spécial...

Une semaine à la ferme

Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller

 A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines.

 Olly's brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university.

 Hero, a swallow, has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult and fraught with danger.

 Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines, but also the endurance of the human spirit.

Dear Olly

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

The classic story of finding fun on the farm from the nation's favourite storyteller, gorgeously re-illustrated by Sam Usher.

 From Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a classic story of one small boy, and one very lucky duck.

 Sam is a city boy through and through - and isn't looking forward to his school trip to Nethercott Farm at all.

 But busy days of farm work, animals and learning all about nature weave their magic - and when Sam finds a duck about to be dinner, he is determined to save him. But how?

 This warm and magical story is gloriously brought to life by the incredible illustrative talent of Sam Usher, and is set on the real-life Nethercott Farm - a member of Farms for City Children - the charity that offers urban children from all over the country the chance to live and work together on a real farm and experience the magic of the English countryside.

The Birthday Duck

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

Découvrez cette fabuleuse épopée qui se raconte depuis la nuit des temps. Elle célèbre les exploits de Beowulf, héros plein de bravoure et de sagesse. Il combattit seul les forces des ténèbres et affronta tour à tour Grendel, le monstre maléfique, sa mère, la sorcière des mers, et le redoutable dragon des enfers.

Plus jamais Mozart

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