Author: Michael Morpurgo
Narrator: Jot Davies
Unabridged: 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 03/31/2011
Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories
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.
A quick read and easy to understand. Some substance with character development seems to be lacking but seeing this is a children's novel, it's still a good short read.......more
Darren is a bully. He is big! He picks on the narrator, taunts him endlessly into fights to prove his point. He is a crowd pleaser, attention seeker, fears challenges and deos not like to lose. The narrator tries his best to contalin himself.This one time, he beats him in a race on sports day. Daren......more
A boy comes up with an interesting way of dealing with the bully he's so terrified of: he challenges him to prove he's brave by leading a bull around by the horns. Just to make the point, he does it first. But there's one thing he doesn't know: Olly, the bull that is gentle as a lamb, is in the barn......more