War Horse 40th Anniversary Edition, Michael Morpurgo
War Horse 40th Anniversary Edition, Michael Morpurgo
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War Horse 40th Anniversary Edition

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Michael Morpurgo, Luke Treadaway

Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Farshore

Published: 10/13/2022

Synopsis

DISCOVER AND CHERISH THIS BEAUTIFUL HARDBACK 40th ANNIVERSARY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE BELOVED MODERN CLASSIC, WAR HORSE. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel… In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story. With a stunning new cover from fine arts photographer, Nine Francois and chapter illustrations from award-winning war artist, George Butler. War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.

About Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 26, 2024

In the tradition of National Velvet and Black Beauty, War Horse is a moving tale of a horse and a time. The horse is Joey. The time is World War One. After bonding with thirteen-year-old Albert at the family farm, Joey is sold to the Army by Albert’s struggling dad. And so the adventure and a series......more

Goodreads review by Baba on August 17, 2022

Runner-Up Whitbread Book Award 1982. Now this is also an acclaimed play and a great film, this a remarkable book, looking at war through a lens that one wouldn't even consider a possibility, from a non-human perspective! ...and it works so well! This story is taken from the viewpoint of a horse that......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on May 29, 2020

War Horse is one of the best-known children’s novels by Michael Morpurgo. And it is an enormously poignant little book. As the title suggests, it is the odyssey of a horse, Joey, brought from Devon across the English Channel and into France and the hell of the Great War, both through the English and......more

Goodreads review by Mario on April 11, 2015

If somebody told me that book written in horse's POV would be this emotional, I wouldn't have believed it. From page one, I knew that this wasn't going to be happy and light read (even in chapter 1 so much happened). It dealt with war, and how unfair and stupid it is. But it also dealt with so much m......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 07, 2022

A beautiful and touching story. Not overly complicated or grim but simple and clean and easy to follow but also easy to care about the characters.......more

Quotes

Praise for Michael Morpurgo: “Michael Morpurgo writes brilliantly about war and animals, conveying the big emotions without preaching.” “There are few children’s writers as compelling as Michael Morpurgo.” “Morpurgo, as always, is subtle and skillful, and incorporates social and moral issues into his writing without being self-righteous or detracting from the quality of the narrative”Elizabeth Reilly, British Council “The former children's laureate has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers.”

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