War Horse Book

Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel…In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story.War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.A great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. Look out for Morpurgo’s other war fiction including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow.War Horse is a story of universal suffering for a universal audience by a writer who ‘has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers’ (The Guardian).Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.

From master storyteller Michael Morpurgo comes an incredibly moving story about one horse's experience in the deadly chaos of the first world war. In 1914 Joey a young farm horse is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer he charges towards the enemy witnessing the horror of the frontline. But even in the desolation of the trenches Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him.

In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Hollywood blockbuster movie and an internationally acclaimed stage show ...

Award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo captures the horror and futility of the First World War by using the experiences of a young farm horse.