Book description
Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse
and the nation's favourite storyteller
A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told
with great charm by a master storyteller.
High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is
adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by
the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who
need a dancing bear… It's rare to find a story that combines so
successfully a contemporary plot and modern morality with a feel for
legend and fairy tale.
She Magazine Michael divides his time between his writing and running
Farms for City Children, a charity which each year takes up to 3,000
children to a working farm for a week. Michael and his wife Clare were
awarded MBEs this year for their work with the charity. Before the first
farm opened 22 years ago, Morpurgo was a teacher and his knowledge of
children's experiences, plus his experience of farms enrich his writing enormously.
Michael Morpurgo has won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and the
Smarties Book Prize.
