War: Stories About Conflict

by Michael Morpurgo (Author)

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  Unabridged
  2005

  $3.25

  The pity, the cruelty, the courage and the consequences of many different conflicts feature in brand-new stories from Joan Aiken, Eva Ibbotson, Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, George Layton, Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret Mahy, Michelle Magorian, Michael Morpurgo, Eleanor Updale, Celia Rees, and other top children's authors. From the Crusades to 1970's Beirut, to the Falklands, many aspects of war are explored in a collection of work that speaks powerfully to today's young readers.

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $15.03

  Specially commissioned by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, the fifteen original stories in this collection encompass a wide range of different conflicts from the past thousand years. The collection contains stories from some of the best children's authors around, including Jamila Gavin, Nina Bawden, Eva Ibbotson, Elizabeth Laird, Geraldine McCaughean, Robert Westall and Michael Morpurgo.