by Michael Morpurgo · Dean & Son · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780603568428
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«The Wreck of the Zanzibar» is the children's and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Dean & Son in paperback (112 pages, in English).
In 1907, fourteen-year-old Laura writes in her diary about life on the Isles of Scilly and her dream of taking part in a shipwreck rescue. The disappearance of her twin brother Billy and a devastating storm precede the sinking of the Zanzibar, a turn that will shape her destiny.
Original novel from 1995, winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Recommended for young readers and for those who enjoy adventure and shipwreck stories.
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.
