

Boy Giant
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Narrator: Akbar Kurtha
Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 09/19/2019
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Narrator: Akbar Kurtha
Unabridged: 3 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 09/19/2019
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
Obviously directed towards a younger audience but the blurb says enjoyable for any age. It is well written but truthfully, mostly what I enjoyed from the book was the message that anywhere can be home but the heart always belongs to family. Framing the narrative within the immigration crisis and hav......more
Award-winning storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo brings his loyal readership a brand new novel this autumn, brought to life with line illustrations by Michael Foreman. Boy Giant: Son of Gulliver is a heartwarming refugee story about hope and humanity in times of being without a place to call home. Omar......more
A retelling of the tale of Gulliver (1726). By using modern language, Morpurgo has given this valuable story a new audience. It will hopefully get the readership that Morpurgo's writing deserves. Recommended to Y7-10 (ages 11-15).......more
Omar is forced to flee Afganistan. He hopes to meet his mother again in the mystical place called England, where people smile and help each other and there is no war. But his boat goes down at sea and he wakes up somewhere very different... I'll admit, I've never read Gulliver all the way through, ju......more
A charming story about Omar, a refugee desperate to reach his mum in England, who is capsized at sea and washes up on an island called Lilliput - the same island where Gulliver travelled to so long ago. With the help of his new friends he finally makes his way to Cornwall to try and find his mother.......more