As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse remains an important book for generations to come.Review for the novel: This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and chaos of the First World War. Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. Illustrated throughout, it brings the beloved children’s classic to life for kids aged 5 and up. 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 Morpurgo’s global bestselling children’s book War Horse has been adapted into a picture book for the first time. 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’ – Guardian As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, it remains an important book for young readers learning about the past. For 40 years, War Horse has been helping children understand conflict.
This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse amid the turmoil of the First World War.
War Horse celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2022! A richly illustrated gift picture book edition of Michael Morpurgo’s classic wartime story War Horse, which has been captivating audiences young and old for 40 years.
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