6/23/2023 0 Comments War horse michael morpurgo book![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.Ī great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. 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. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. War Horse by Sir Michael Morpurgo is a fictional novel, but the book is based on true events and real-life accounts of the war. ![]() In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Told through the eyes of the book’s protagonist, Joey the horse, the story manages to provide a neutral statement on the. Primarily a children’s author, Morpurgo enthuses very adult issues into the small book, bringing the reality of the first world war to a larger audience. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel… Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse is a simple yet effective book. ![]()
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