In this involving tale, master storyteller Michael Morpurgo revisits the ‘landscape of his memories’, telling of his boyhood in the idyllic village of Bradwell fifty years before. The village is a stone’s throw from the sea, with a gull on every chimney stack, and is peopled by quirky characters such as the three Stebbing sisters, the white moustachioed Colonel Burton and Bennie the village thug. But the heroine of this story is the serene Mrs Pettigrew, who lives in a railway carriage down in the marshes with her dogs, donkey, bees and hens; she befriends the young Michael and lets him ride over the marshes on her donkey so he too can experience the magic of the local wildlife and environment. But industrial reality intrudes when plans are made to build a nuclear power station on the site of the marshes, endangering Mrs Pettigrew’s home and the gulls, owls, kestrels and thousands of insects and plants which also belong there. A village battle ensues. Ages 7+.
"From the first sentence of a Michael Morpurgo book, you know you are in the hands of a natural storyteller." (Guardian) "Bailey's line drawings have a lovely old-fashioned quality appropriate to the remembrances inspired by Morpurgo's boyhood." (School Library Journal)"
Title: Halfway home
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Michael Morpurgo
;
Illustrated by
Peter Bailey
ISBN 13: 9781406332025
ISBN 10: 140633202x
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Fiction
NBS Classification: Children's Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.914
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
Height: 190mm
Width: 160mm