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The Silver Swan

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552546140

  • Length: 32  Pages

  • Dimensions: 290mm x 5mm x 240mm

  • Weight: 218g

  • RRP: £7.99

The Silver Swan

A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. She remains at the loch, mates and there are soon five cygnets too. The boy watches them in awe and pride. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for food. The fox also has cubs to feed...

A remarkably dramatic and compassionate story about Nature, magnificently told and stunningly illustrated with sweeping pastel landscapes.

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552546140

  • Length: 32  Pages

  • Dimensions: 290mm x 5mm x 240mm

  • Weight: 218g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book

    Guardian

  • Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world

    Junior Education

  • Beautifully craftered . . . not a word too many, not a word out of place . . . Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike

    Carousel

  • An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings

    Publishers Weekly

  • A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan

    Literary Review

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About the Author

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best-loved storymakers. He has written over 150 books loved by readers around the world. His best-known work, War Horse, was adapted into a multi-Oscar-nominated film by Steven Spielberg and into a widely acclaimed play by the National Theatre. In 2003 Michael became the third Children's Laureate, a position he helped to create with the poet Ted Hughes. With his wife, Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999. In 2017 he was awarded a knighthood for services to literature and charity.

Michael Morpurgo

Christian Birmingham

Michael Morpurgo is one of today's most popular and critically acclaimed children's writers, author of KENSUKE'S KINGDOM and THE WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR amongst many other titles. He has won a multitude of prizes including the Children's Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Writer's Guild Award.

Christian Birmingham

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