by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749746957
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The White Horse of Zennor and Other Stories» is Michael Morpurgo's collection of short stories, in paperback from Egmont Books Ltd (160 pages, in English).
In Zennor, a Cornish village, tales of mystery and fantasy unfold: a white horse gallops on the moor on a foggy night; Cherry, cut off by the tide, meets old tin miners; Billy the lame learns to swim with the seals. Thomas Barbery and Mad Miss Marney also appear.
The work was originally published in 1985; this paperback edition is from 2001.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 12 looking for short tales of mystery, fantasy, and a maritime setting.
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.
