Michael Morpurgo was 2003–2005 Children’s Laureate, has written over one hundred books and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and the Red House Children’s Book Award. His books are translated and read around the world and his hugely popular novel War Horse, already a critically acclaimed stage play, is now also a blockbuster film. Michael and his wife, Clare, founded the charity Farms for City Children and live in Devon.
François Place completed his first illustrations for the Découverte Cadet series after studying visual expression at l’École Estienne, and his art has since illuminated numerous texts, including Michael Morpurgo’s bestselling War Horse and Timothée de Fombelle’s Toby Alone and Toby and the Secrets of the Tree. François is also an author in his own right, and among his credits are the highly praised The Old Man Mad About Drawing, The Last Giants and The Atlas of the Geographers of Orbae.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
First published 2006 in Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: A Story-maker’s Journey
by Walker Books Ltd, 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ
This edition published 2014
Text © 2006 Michael Morpurgo
Illustrations © 2013 François Place
The right of Michael Morpurgo and François Place to be identified as author and illustrator respectively of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-4063-6261-9 (ePub)
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