by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749748517
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«Arthur, High King of Britain» is Michael Morpurgo's fantasy novel for young readers, published by Egmont Books Ltd in paperback (256 pages, in English).
On the Isles of Scilly, a boy is trapped by the tide and rescued by Arthur, who tells him his life story: the pulling of the sword from the stone, his fight against the Saxons, the court of Camelot and the tragic love between Guinevere and Lancelot, as well as the deeds of the Knights of the Round Table.
2002 edition, illustrated by Michael Foreman. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The work was originally published in 1994.
Reading for young people aged 8 and up, especially for those who enjoy fantasy and tales of knights and medieval legends.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
