My Friend Walter By Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 2007)

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A hilarious tale of history come to life from former children's laureate & master storyteller Michael Morpurgo Living with a ghost can have its difficulties I discovered even if he is your friend Remember Sir Walter Raleigh who laid his cloak in a puddle so Queen Elizabeth I could walk across? Well Bess meets his ghost & finds out she's his ancestor! How will Bess explain Sir Walter to her family? Especially when he breaks her brother's fishing rod steals a horse & smokes cigars in her room! Michael Morpurgo demonstrates why he is considered to be the master storyteller with a uniquely funny take on spirits from the other side Look out for Michael's other ghostly stories The Ghost of Grania O' Malley & The White Horse of Zennor ------ 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 & 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 & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & 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 & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & 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 & 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 & sharing my dream with my readers Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature