by Michael Morpurgo (Author), Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Michael Morpurgo (Author), Michael Morpurgo (Author)
Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman. TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little black calf and they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls - the corrida and death. Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, the black bull, and rides with him into the hills.There they witness the bombing of their village (it's the year 1936, and the Spanish Civil War has started) and Antonito cannot go back - his family and the farm are destroyed, and Paco has run off, wild with fright. He decides to stay in the hills, where he meets up with the Resistance fighters. During the War, Antonito hears stories round the campfire of the wonderful black bull, who becomes a symbol of freedom for them all. Could this really be Paco? But no-one has ever seen him. After the war, when Antonito is working as a muleteer in the mountains, he falls asleep and dreams of Paco. In the morning, he wakes to see hoof prints on the ground beside him...A delightful story, full of nostalgia and drama in the author's own inimitable style. Illustrated by Michael Foreman.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 128
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
Published: 04 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0007107188
ISBN 13: 9780007107186
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: / Key title Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman. / Award-winner Michael Morpurgo is a hugely successful author on the Collins list. / Michael's many prizes include the Whitbread Award, the Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and the Smarties Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. / Michael Morpurgo's most famous novel for Collins -- The Butterfly Lion, published in May 1996 -- has sold over 150,000 copies to date. / Illustrator Michael Foreman is also internationally known and celebrated. / This is the first Collins-originated book by this prize-winning duo, Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman
A tale about another country and another time that resonates with the here and now... Once again, Morpurgo demonstrates his talent for stories of absolute clarity about big events
Sunday Times
A poignant tale, simply told, about the horror of the Spanish Civil War and the noble cruelty of bullfighting.
Sunday Telegraph
In Toro! Toro! Michael Morpurgo unpicks the problem of taking sides, of how enemies can be good, of guilty secrets kept for years... A compact, horrifying and compelling story
The Times
A beautifully, directly and convincingly told story: typical Morpurgo. Michael Foreman's illustrations are exactly right and the whole is a very fine, thoroughly recommended, production.
School Librarian
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children, and has sold more than 35 million books around the world. He has written more than 150 novels and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Blue Peter Book Award, while several of his books have been adapted for stage and screen, including the global theatrical phenomenon War Horse. Michael was Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005, and founded the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
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