Description
A sparkling collection of folk stories and traditional tales
About the Author
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2008, the Costa Children's Book Award 2004, the Blue Peter Book Award: The Book I Couldn't Put Down and numerous other awards. Sir Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle and was a founder-member of the UK Children's Laureate.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198421184
Author Elizabeth Laird
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 202mm * 129mm * 7mm