/ Key title A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. / Hugely successful author on the Collins list / Moving novel set mainly in Africa and dealing with the major issue of landmines / Story told through three 'voices': a brother; a sister and a swallow / Michael Morpurgo's previous novel for Collins -- The Butterfly Lion, published in May 1996 -- has sold over 150,000 copies to date / Illustrated by Christian Birmingham
Michael divides his time between his writing and running Farms for City Children, a charity which each year takes up to 3,000 children to a working farm for a week. Michael and his wife Clare were awarded MBEs this year for their work with the charity. Before the first farm opened 22 years ago, Morpurgo was a teacher and his knowledge of children's experiences, plus his experience of Farms enrich his writing enormously. Michael Morpurgo has won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and the Smarties Book Prize.
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