Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel…In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story.War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. 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.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).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.Gold title• Stunning, collectable new cover look for this best-loved author’s classic backlist, reissued in three sets in March, May and July 2016• July reissue titles also include The Ghost of Grania O’Malley (lifetime UK sales 32K) and Long Way Home (lifetime UK sales 26K)• Lifetime sales of over 629,000 copies• Michael Morpurgo’s most acclaimed and affecting story, this is a tale of friendship, sacrifice and hope, set against the backdrop of WWI• New cover look by David Dean, illustrator of Lauren St John’s award-winning Laura Marlin and White Giraffe series• Former Children’s Laureate, OBE and multi-award-winner, Michael is truly a national treasureCompetition: the;private peaceful;skylark war;when the sky falls;we are wolves;boy in the striped pyjamas;lord of the nutcracker men. by;hilary mckay;phil earle;katrina nannestad;john boyne;noel streatfeild
Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel…In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story.War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. 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.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).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.Gold title• Stunning, collectable new cover look for this best-loved author’s classic backlist, reissued in three sets in March, May and July 2016• July reissue titles also include The Ghost of Grania O’Malley (lifetime UK sales 32K) and Long Way Home (lifetime UK sales 26K)• Lifetime sales of over 629,000 copies• Michael Morpurgo’s most acclaimed and affecting story, this is a tale of friendship, sacrifice and hope, set against the backdrop of WWI• New cover look by David Dean, illustrator of Lauren St John’s award-winning Laura Marlin and White Giraffe series• Former Children’s Laureate, OBE and multi-award-winner, Michael is truly a national treasureCompetition: the;private peaceful;skylark war;when the sky falls;we are wolves;boy in the striped pyjamas;lord of the nutcracker men. by;hilary mckay;phil earle;katrina nannestad;john boyne;noel streatfeild