Dolphin Boy - Michael Morpurgo

Swim with the Fishes! (777 words)
by tange - written on 14/04/10 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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of not only one but TWO of my favourite children s authors on it I knew I HAD to read it! The book in question is Dolphin Boy, written by Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Michael Foreman. Dolphin Boy is a children s picture book aimed at the younger reader. The amount of text and the vocabulary used is probably aimed at the slightly more confident younger reader, rather than a real beginner. Some of the words may be a little hard, but, as a bedtime story book, or one to read with your child and assist with understanding bits they don t recognise, it would suit any age. As the title suggests this is a story about a boy and a dolphin! Sounds very simple, but there s ...

The Orchard Book of Aesop's Fables - Michael Morpurgo

The moral of the story is ..... (825 words)
by Karenwilson - written on 13/09/01, updated on 13/09/01 (Very useful, 229 readings)
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I was aimlessly walking around shopping looking for a birthday present for Luke’s friend, when I stumbled across one of my all time favourite books. Instantly it took me back to my childhood days when I would sit and read one of the many different stories in the book. Aesop’s Fables is this famous book. What appealed to me so much when I was child was reading the moral at the end of the story. To this day they have always stuck in my mind. If you have never heard of Aesop’s Fables let me give you a brief bit of history about him. Aesop was a Greek fable writer who lived in the late fifth century BC. He was crippled and suffered from a speech impediment and ...