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The Wreck of the Zanzibar Michael Morpurgo

The Wreck of the Zanzibar By Michael Morpurgo

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo


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Summary

A gripping children's story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar Summary

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

A gripping children's story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.

We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again.... Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Laura's twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems there's little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks, and everything changes ...

The Wreck of the Zanzibar is a gripping historical adventure from the author of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. 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.

The Wreck of the Zanzibar Reviews

A hearty, old-fashioned survival tale * Publishers Weekly *

About Michael Morpurgo

Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children's 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 Kensuke's Kingdom. Michael has 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. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the poverty of experience... many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories.

He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers. Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.

Additional information

GOR001310917
9781405233361
1405233362
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20070806
112
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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