Animal Stories
Kingfisher Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 21. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7534-1010-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the perfect book for any wildlife enthusiast: a unique selection of over twenty stories and extracts about the animal kingdom, from the very finest writers of the genre. This carefully selected collection features writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Dick King-Smith and Michael Morpurgo himself. Illustrated throughout with detailed etchings, this is a fantastic introduction to many great writers and a great present for any animal-loving child.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7534-1010-3 (9780753410103)
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Previous edition
Michael Morpurgo
Animal Stories
Book
07/1999
Kingfisher Books Ltd
€27.42
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Person
Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He is currently the Children's Laureate. Andrew Davidson is an acclaimed illustrator. The engravings he did for Ted Hughes' book The Iron Man won him the 1986 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Gloucestershire.