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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. Michael Morpurgos childrens book, War Horse, crosses the limits of being a childrens book. 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). Look out for Morpurgo's other war fiction including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow. A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.

War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The power of war and the beauty of peace. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. Through his eyes the reader experiences the devastation of the Western Front, his capture by the Germans and his entrapment in No Mans Land. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. Author: Michael Morpurgo Illustrator: Francois Place Publisher: Farshore Joey is a young farm horse, sold to the army at the beginning of the First World War. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel. Buy War Horse 40th Anniversary Edition: The beautiful illustrated collector’s edition of this beloved historical fiction modern classic, new for 2022 by Morpurgo, Michael (ISBN: 9780008535711) from Amazons Book Store.

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