by Michael Morpurgo · Dean & Son · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780603568350
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«Why the Whales Came» is the children's and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Dean & Son in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Set against the First World War, Gracie and Daniel befriend the hermit Birdman, whom everyone avoids. A message in the sand reveals he is not who he seemed. When a fog leaves them lost on the island of Samson, the legend of a curse and their friendship with the old man confront them with a difficult decision.
The action takes place on the Isles of Scilly. The novel was originally published in 1985; this Dean & Son edition is from 2012.
For young readers and fans of historical and adventure fiction, within children's and young adult literature.
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.
