by Michael Morpurgo · Farshore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405233361
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«The Wreck of the Zanzibar» is Michael Morpurgo's historical adventure children's novel, published by Farshore in paperback (112 pages, in English).
The story follows Laura, a girl from the Isles of Scilly, through a year of loss: her twin brother disappears and a storm devastates the island. When the ship Zanzibar runs aground on the rocks, what the tide brings opens a glimmer of hope and transforms her fate.
Winner of the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and finalist for the Carnegie Medal; the work was originally published in 1995 and this edition dates from 2007.
Suitable for readers aged 10 and up, especially those who enjoy historical fiction and sea-set adventures.
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.
