Toby Jenkins doesn’t like boarding school – branded ‘Jinks’, he’s convinced he’ll never fit in. Then he meets Christopher, a strange boy who believes himself the second coming of Jesus Christ, and when the village ‘oiks’ declare war on the schoolboy ‘toffs’, Toby finds himself caught right in the middle. Can Christopher deliver the miracle Toby so badly needs? A spellbinding children’s story from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo – now with a brand new cover look – and a brilliant evocation of school life from the master storyteller. Michael has written more than one hundred books for children including An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Private Peaceful, and An Elephant in the Garden, and has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award and the Children’s Book Award, besides being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal four times. Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction: one of the most successful children’s authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike, he has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse, adapted into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. Several of his other stories have reached screen and stage too, among them My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke’s Kingdom. In 1976 he started the charity Farms for City Children with his wife, Clare, aiming to relieve the “poverty of experience” so many young children feel in inner city and urban areas, and he remains patron of over a dozen other charities besides. Living in Devon, listening to Mozart and working with children have given Michael the ideas and incentive behind his stories; he spends half his life mucking out sheds, feeding sheep or milking cows, and the other half dreaming up and writing tales for children. “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out – the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.” Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.
ISBN 13: 9781405226721
Author: Michael Morpurgo
