The Wreck of the Zanzibar

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A gripping childrens story fromWar Horseauthor and formerChildren's LaureateMichael Morpurgo.
We all knew what was going to happen. Wed seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again. Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Lauras twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems theres little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the islands rocks, and everything changes

The Wreck of the Zanzibarisa gripping historical adventure from the author ofAn Eagle in the Snow,Listen to the Moon,Shadow, andAn Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgo has written more thanone hundredbooks for childrenand won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Childrens Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.

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A hearty, old-fashioned survival tale * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom. Michael has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife, Clare, aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience" many young children feel in inner city and urban areas. Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have provided Michael with the ideas and incentive to write his stories. He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories for children. "For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out - the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers." Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.