Pour tous les habitants de Bryher, une des îles Scilly, au large de l'Angleterre, Zacharie Pétrel, surnommé l'Homme-Oiseau, est un vieux fou un peu sorcier. Pour tous, sauf pour Gracie et Daniel qui, devenus ses amis, découvrent un vieil homme solitaire, entouré d'animaux. Mais les deux enfants restent intrigués par le lien mystérieux qui unit l'Homme-Oiseau à l'île Samson, sur laquelle plane l'ombre d'une ancienne malédiction. Une malédiction qui se réveillera si quiconque pose le pied sur Samson.

Le jour des baleines

"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

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

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

A stunning gift collection of animal poems from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, celebrating with heart and humour the creatures with whom we share our planet.

 (This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase if in doubt.)

 Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo's poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals - a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. Building on this classic framework, Michael has added many more animals - they speak in their own voices, full of humour and brio, to tell of their lives and the impact of humanity on their habitats.

 With full colour illustrations throughout, this celebrated partnership has created a gift book with a strong ecological message that will also ignite a love of poetry in young readers and will appeal to fans of The Lost Words. Above all it is a celebration of the natural world in verse, a book to treasure and to inspire.

 Michael Morpurgo has sold over 35 million books globally, many of them illustrated by Michael Foreman.

Carnival of the Animals - A Whole New World of Animal Poems

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

Bertie passe une enfance solitaire en Afrique du Sud, jusqu'au jour où il fait une rencontre extraordinaire : un lionceau blanc, orphelin. Ils deviennent inséparables. Mais ils grandissent... Bertie est envoyé en pension en Angleterre et le lion blanc est vendu à un cirque. Avant de quitter son ami, le garçon lui fait une promesse : "Je te retrouverai. N'oublie jamais que je te retrouverai." Une magnifique histoire d'amitié et de fidélité où se confondent les rêves et la réalité.

Le lion blanc

Join the fun on the farm!

 A charming, funny story from award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, hilariously illustrated throughout by Shoo Rayner, and perfect for readers of 5 and up.

 (This ebook is optimised for Kindle tablets and the Kindle App. It is not suitable for e-Ink kindle devices, such as the PaperWhite. We recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase if in doubt.)

 Two funny farmyard stories for younger readers.

 Martians at Mudpuddle Farm:Have Martians landed on Mudpuddle Farm? Farmer Rafferty seems to think so. Now it's up to Albertine, Goose Queen, to work it out. Luckily she's the cleverest goose in the whole world, so if anyone knows what to do, she will.

 Mum's the Word:Something strange is going on at Mudpuddle Farm. Egbert the goat is not himself at all. Instead of grumbling, he's singing and dancing! And he's even greedier than usual.

Alien Invasion!

A gripping World War II adventure from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.

 Jo did not stop until he'd shut the door behind him and even then his heart could not stop pounding in his ears.

 Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldiers start patrolling the mountains, and Jo realises the children are trapped. Jo'??s slightest mistake could have devastating consequences .

 Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction award

 In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie's War, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Waiting for Anya is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history. It will provide a wider context for kids who have studied the Holocaust and The Diary of Anne Frank.

 Other Michael Morpurgo titles you may enjoy:

 The Eagle in the Snow

 Listen to the Moon

 A Twist of Gold

 Private Peaceful

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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.

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