by Michael Morpurgo · Egmont Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405209304
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«The Wreck of the Zanzibar» is the children's and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by Egmont Books Ltd in paperback (124 pages, in English).
In 1907, Laura, a fourteen-year-old girl, writes in her diary about her family's life on the Scilly Isles and how her dream of taking part in a shipwreck rescue comes true. Years later, Michael goes to the island for the funeral of his great-aunt Laura and inherits her diary, which tells of her childhood amid great storms and the discovery of Zanzibar.
The novel, originally published in 1995, won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal; this edition includes illustrations by Christian Birmingham.
A novel aimed at young readers, especially those seeking sea adventures with a teenage protagonist and historical setting.
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.
