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Loyal Creatures
Morris Gleitzman
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Description for Loyal Creatures
Paperback. Tells the story of war horse Daisy and her 16-year-old owner Will, sent from the Australian outback to the gruelling Middle Eastern campaign of the First World War. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 5AL; YFT. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 129 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
Loyal Creatures is the deeply moving story of war horse Daisy and her 16-year-old owner Will, sent from the Australian outback to the gruelling Middle Eastern campaign of the First World War. Their skill in finding water is vital to their regiment in the desert, but their devotion to each other is what keeps them alive in an overwhelmingly hostile environment. Is their unwavering loyalty enough to determine their destiny?
The story was inspired by Michael Morpurgo's international bestseller War Horse and is closely based on historical record. Morris Gleitzman is the author of the highly acclaimed war ... Read more
Product Details
Number of pages
176
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141355009
SKU
V9780141355009
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99-8
About Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman was born in Lincolnshire and moved to Australia in his teens. He worked as a paperboy, a shelf-stacker, a frozen chicken de-froster, an assistant to a fashion designer and more before taking a degree in Professional Writing at Canberra College and becoming a writer. He has written for TV, stage, newspapers and magazines but is best-known for his ... Read more
Reviews for Loyal Creatures
Tender and terrible; beautiful, brave and brutal, Morris Gleitzman has written a most remarkable story of men and horses in war, uncompromising and unflinching in its portrayal of the agonies of the First World War for men and horses alike. Sparely and supremely well written, this is quite simply one of very best novels I have read. MICHAEL MORPURGO.
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