Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel - War Horse. From the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story. War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway. A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. Look out for Morpurgo's other war fiction including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow. War Horse is a story of universal suffering for a universal audience by a writer who 'has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers' (The Guardian). Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. Gold title * Over 2 million copies of WAR HORSE sold in the UK * Part of a brand new cover look across all Farshore and HCCB Michael Morpurgo frontlist for the very first time * The powerful and enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse during the universal suffering of the First World War. *War Horse was adapted for both stage in the award-winning National Theatre production and for screen by Steven Spielberg *Michael Morpurgo, OBE, has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times Competition: Goodnight Mr Tom;When the Sky Falls;Code Name Bananas;Letters from the Lighthouse;The Diary of Anne Frank;Private Peaceful;Butterfly Lion;Kensuke's Kingdom;Skylark's War;Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Phil Earle;Anne Frank;Emma Carroll;Hilary McKay;Michelle Magorian;Judith Kerr;David Walliams;John Boyne.