by Michael Morpurgo · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194249829
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«War Horse» is the graded reader by Michael Morpurgo in the Dominoes series, level two, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (67 pages, in English).
Set in rural England before the First World War, it tells of the promise of friendship between Albert Narracott and his horse Joey; when the animal is sent to the French front as a war horse, the story follows his adventures among the British, German and French armies while Albert tries to find him again.
Second revised edition, published in 2013; CEFR level B1.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language who want to practise reading comprehension with an adapted story.
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.
