by Michael Morpurgo · Farshore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405239615
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«Arthur High King of Britain» is Michael Morpurgo's adventure novel, published by Farshore in paperback (272 pages, in English).
A boy, about to die swept away by the tide on a sandbank, wakes by the fire of an old man who claims to be Arthur, the great king of legend. Through his words, the stories of Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table come alive: deeds of chivalry, love, magic, evil and betrayal.
The cover states that the work was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal.
Recommended for young people aged 10 and up, and for those seeking a modern version of the Arthurian 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.
