FROM HEREABOUT HILL
Morpurgo Michael
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
Wydawca:
Egmont UK Ltd
Data premiery:
2017-06-29
ISBN:
9781405233354
Opis produktu
!StartFragment/ :!EndFragment/ :spanMichael 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./span/ :spanspanHis first book was published in 1975 and he has since published over 100 titles. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. Michaels books have also been adapted for film and the stage including most recently the National Theatres enormously successful production of/spanemspanWar Horse/span/emspan./span/span/ :spanTogether with his wife Clare he founded Farms for City Children an educational charity in 1976. The organisation now runs three farms welcoming over 3000 children a year. In 1999 he was awarded an MBE for services to youth and in 2006 he was awarded an OBE./span/ :spanspanHis books have won the Whitbread Award (/spanemspanThe Wreck Of Zanzibar/span/emspan) the Smarties Book Prize (/spanemspanThe Butterfly Lion/span/emspan) the Childrens Book Award (/spanemspanKensukes Kingdom/span/emspan) and Cercle DOr Prix Sorciere (/spanemspanKing Of The Cloud Forests/span/emspan) the Blue Peter Book Award and the Califonia Young Reader Medal (/spanemspanPrivate Peaceful/span/emspan) the Independent Booksellers Book of the Year Award (/spanemspanAlone On A Wide Wide Sea/span/emspan) and several have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal./span/span/ :spanMichael was Childrens Laureate from 20032005./span/A spellbinding collection of short stories from Britain’:s bestloved 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 awardwinning author of War Horse Michael Morpurgo demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with this diverse collection of stories for children./ :Michael Morpurgo Former Childrens Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful childrens 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 Kensukes Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Childrens Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity FarmsData Publikacji: 2017-06-29
Wymiary: 198 mm 129 mm 12 mm 152 gr
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