by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405237352
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«Animal Tales» is a collection of three animal stories by Michael Morpurgo, published by Egmont Books Ltd in paperback (144 pages, in English).
It brings together three stories featuring animals: «Jo-Jo the Melon Donkey» presents a donkey who must save Venice from the sea; in «Conker», a boy tries to rescue a hungry dog while looking for horse chestnuts; in «Colly's Barn», the birds of a barn condemned to demolition prove wiser than expected.
The volume belongs to Egmont's Banana Books series and the three stories are illustrated by Ian Andrew.
Recommended for early readers aged 5 to 7 interested in animal tales.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
