My Friend Walter

by Michael Morpurgo (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  Bess Throckmorton meets an old man at a family reunion who tells her that Sir Walter Raleigh is one of her ancestors. Curious to see where he was imprisoned, she visits the Bloody Tower and finds that the old man was none other than Sir Walter himself! The mischievous old ghost sets about restoring the family's fortune, while all the time Bess has to try to keep the presence of a ghost in the house a secret. Sir Walter comes up with his own scheme to steal the orb from the Crown Jewels to help raise money for the farm. But the orb goes missing from hiding place and the family find they have to move out of the farm. At the last minute. Walter finds a brilliant way they can 'find' the orb and the family can finally move into the Sir Walter's old lands and to another farm they will love.

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $10.44

  My Friend Walter is a charming and hilarious story of friendship between different eras from Britain's best-loved children's author, 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 that Queen Elizabeth I could walk across? Well, Bess meets his ghost and finds out he's an ancestor! How will Bess explain Sir Walter to her family? Especially when he breaks her brother's fishing rod, steals a horse and smokes cigars in her room! Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author of War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, demonstrates why he is considered to be the master story teller with a uniquely funny take on spirits from the other side. Not just your average ghost story.