The Silver Swan by Michael Morpurgo

The Silver Swan by Michael Morpurgo

A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for food.

A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beautyA truly wonderful book * Guardian *
Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world * Junior Education *
Beautifully craftered . . . not a word too many, not a word out of place . . . Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike * Carousel *
An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings * Publishers Weekly *
A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan * Literary Review *

Michael Morpurgo is one of today's most popular and critically acclaimed children's writers, author of KENSUKE'S KINGDOM and THE WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR amongst many other titles. He has won a multitude of prizes including the Children's Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Writer's Guild Award.

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ISBN 13	9780552546140
ISBN 10	0552546143
Title	The Silver Swan
Author	Michael Morpurgo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	2001-09-03
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.