A spellbinding children's story from from War Horse author & former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo
- now with a brand new cover look Toby Jenkins doesn't like boarding school He gets called Jinks & thinks he will never fit in But then he meets a strange boy named Christopher who believes that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ When the village boy oiks' start a war with the schoolboy toffs' Toby is caught in the middle Can Christopher provide the miracle that Toby needs?A brilliant evocation of school life from the master storyteller Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Private Peaceful & An Elephant in the Garden He 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 -- 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