He loves illustrating and tackling new projects, enjoying the challenges they bring. Tom Clohosy Cole is a freelance illustrator who studied illustration at Kingston University. Visit his website to find out more about this master storyteller. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 60,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 he won the Blue Peter Book Award for his novel Private Peaceful, which was also adapted into an acclaimed stage play. He has written over 150 books and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Award. Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best loved writers for children with sales of over 35 million copies. As we move beyond centenary commemorations and continue to strive for peace across the world, War Horse is a classic that will be read by generations to come.
It tells of an enduring friendship between a boy and his horse, which is touching and will appeal to animal lovers, but this book also helps children to understand the history and deadly chaos of the First World War in an appropriate way. We would recommend this moving book to children aged 6-9 years. The full colour pictures are glossy, clean-lined and vivid – almost in the style of graphic novel artwork, except that they are glorious full colour spreads, as you would expect in a picture book for younger children. Illustrated throughout by Tom Clohosy Cole, this enables this popular and important story to be enjoyed by a younger readers. However, you may not be aware that Michael Morpurgo’s story about a friendship between a boy and his horse Joey, set in the First World War, has now been adapted into a picture book. Urn:oclc:843342613 Republisher_date 20130617063622 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130614072437 Scanner Horse is a book that everyone is familiar with.
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