Farm boy

Farm Boy is the second installment to Michael Morpurgo 's War Horse Series. Although this book is short and recommended to much younger readers of the first book, War Horse , the book has this imprint of Morpurgo 's writing style even you turn the pages upside down. The usage of thorough old country mo Leggi tutto

As the follow-up to War Horse, my expectations were very high. However, they were shattered with this book, full of beautiful illustrations, clear text, and a memorable story. This is one of those books, that you can read over and over again, and still get your heart warmed. One of the best books ev Leggi tutto

"One evening, after he’d read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. ‘Don’t it ever stop?’ he said. ‘I can mind Father telling me that there’d be no more wars, not after his one. It shames me. It shames all of us. What’s the good in reading, if that’s all t Leggi tutto

I own this book. In my attempt to read through all the books I own, I've been reading slowly through my bundle of Michael Morpurgo books. I loved War Horse as a kid, to the point where my copy ended up falling apart, but I never knew Farm Boy was the sequel (even though it says it right there on t

Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo deserves ten stars out of five but as there are only five stars available that will have to do. In my complete ignorance I only realised when I started the book that it is the sequel to War Horse, but I actually enjoyed it more than War Horse (mainly because Joey wasn’t Leggi tutto

'Farm Boy' is a cute short story based on the descendants of the characters from 'War Horse'. Unfortunately, it is missing two of the key items that made 'War Horse' so compelling: the horse's point of view and World War I. This book is incredibly short (my edition is 106 pages of large type and many Leggi tutto