by Gaye Muir, Linda Birch, Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405229241
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«The Marble Crusher» is a children's story collection by Michael Morpurgo, published by Egmont Books Ltd in paperback (96 pages, in English).
It brings together three stories: in the title one, Albert arrives new at school and ends up believing the bully Sid's tales about a marble-crushing machine; in «Colly's Barn», Annie tries to save a barn with the help of two birds; in «Conker», Nick wants to win conker fights with the support of his grandmother.
The work was originally published in 1992; this Egmont edition is from 2007 and contains the three stories.
Aimed at primary school children and early readers.
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.
