Animal Stories (Red Hot Reads S.)

Animal Stories (Red Hot Reads S.)

by Andrew Davidson (Illustrator)

Synopsis

This is the perfect book for any wildlife enthusiast: a unique selection of over twenty stories and extracts about the animal kingdom, from the very finest writers of the genre. This carefully selected collection features writers as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Charles Darwin, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Dick King-Smith and Michael Morpurgo himself. Illustrated throughout with detailed etchings, this is a fantastic introduction to many great writers and a great present for any animal-loving child.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd
Published: 21 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0753410109
ISBN 13: 9780753410103

Author Bio
Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He is currently the Children's Laureate. Andrew Davidson is an acclaimed illustrator. The engravings he did for Ted Hughes' book The Iron Man won him the 1986 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Gloucestershire.