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A Country to Call Home by Lucy Popescu; Simon Armitage (Contribution by); Eoin Colfer (Contribution by); Michael Morpurgo (Contribution by); Chris Riddell (Contribution by); Kit de Waal (Contribution by)
Category: Children's Fiction
From the editor of A Country of Refugecomes an anthology of new writing on one of the defining issues of our time. Focusing on the fate of refugee children and young adults, it is aimed at children and adult readers alike, and features work from Michael Morpurgo, Eoin Colfer, Kit de Waal and Simon Armit ...Show more
A Medal for Leroy by Michael Morpurgo, O.B.E
Category: Children's Fiction
Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army. A novel about families, identity and loss by bestselling award-winning author of WAR HORSE. Michael doesn't remember his father, an RAF pilot lost in the war. And his French mother, heartbroken and passionate, doesn' ...Show more
A Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo & Emily Gravett
Category: Children's Fiction
Travel the globe in this inspiring journey through the animal kingdom. A Song of Gladness is a timely reminder of the beauty and importance of the natural world from two of today's most celebrated children's book creators.From a blackbird in a Devon garden to leopards in the African savanna, hibernating ...Show more
A Song of Gladness: A story of hope for us and our planet by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Picture Books
Travel the globe in this beautiful, inspiring journey through the animal kingdom, which encourages children to value the natural world and their place within it. From two of today's most celebrated children's book creators. From a blackbird in a Devon garden to leopards in the African savanna, hibernat ...Show more
Alien Invasion: Mudpuddle Farm by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Mudpuddle Farm
A charming series of adventures for younger readers, featuring a family of all sorts of animals that live in the farmyard behind the tumble-down barn on Mudpuddle Farm! Two fantastic stories in one volume! Martians at Mudpuddle Farm: Have Martians landed on Mudpuddle Farm? Farmer Rafferty seems to think ...Show more
All I Said Was by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction
The power of reading comes alive in this brilliantly accessible, low reading age, and fully illustrated title from mulit-award-winning author Michael Morpurgo.A boy who wants to fly swaps places with a bird who wants to read a book, but who has the better end of the bargain? A gorgeous and thought-provo ...Show more
All I Said Was... (IA 3-5, Picture Book) by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction
Imagination takes wing in this cleverly-crafted story about a boy who becomes a bird! A heart-warming and thrilling read with a powerful message about the power of books and stories. First of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family with easy-read font.
Alone On A Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Young Adult
How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship, all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye...That is all I remember of England. W ...Show more
An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction
1940. Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story - a story about Bobby Byron, the most decorated soldier ...Show more
An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction
A fictionalised account of the real-life British soldier who let Hitler live in the First World War, and his attempt to put right his mistake - from a master storyteller 'Brilliant. Historical fiction at its most magnificent' Jackie French Billy Byron was one of the most decorated privates of the Firs ...Show more
An Eagle in the Snow by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Young Adult
The powerful new novel from the master storyteller - inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II. 1940. The train is under attacks from German fighters. In the darkness, sheltering in a railway tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a sto ...Show more
An Elephant In The Garden by Michael Morpurgo
Category: Children's Fiction
An epic story of determination and love, about one family’s escape from the Allied bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. It’s 1945, and the bombing of Dresden is imminent. Before the bombs start to fall, Lizzie’s zookeeper mother brings home the one animal she can’t bear to lose: Marlene, the ele ...Show more