They go fishing, Bess lets Walter ride on one of the family tractors (which he does love, he declares that tractors are majesties compared to cars or something), and they have all sorts of fun together! My Friend Walter’ is a great ghostly story from Michael Morpurgo and whilst maybe not up there with his best (for me – War Horse, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Private Peaceful, An Elephant in the Garden and Alone on the Wide, Wide Sea) it is still a very well-constructed and written great short read.

Morpurgo added: “Storymakers and storytellers like Barrie, and like all the previous winners of this award, have given us the hope and faith children need, we need, to keep flying, have sustained us through dark and troubled times, have banished doubt. To touch the lives of children, to witness their listening and reading silence, is reward enough in itself. This is simply the icing on the cake.” There are hidden moral lessons throughout, and the undercurrent of the book is writing wrongs, and family first. Another great book by Michael Morpurgo, I’ve always loved his books as they are not only fun but also informative and you learn from them as well as enjoying the story. However, if you would like to refer to the text, in chapter 7, we discover the mischievous old ghost (Sir Walter) sets about restoring the family’s fortune, while all the time Bess has to try to keep the presence of a ghost in the house a secret. Sir Walter comes up with his own scheme to steal the orb from the Crown Jewels to help raise money for the farm. Thank you for uploading this, I was having real trouble having some inspiration for my castles and kings topic in English, but this has really helped and saved me for the next 2 weeks!

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urn:lcp:myfriendwalter00mich:epub:bba34f90-8811-4789-b2da-b6c050c25ec4 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier myfriendwalter00mich Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t66410p6x Isbn 0749746718 It was quite funny, and I liked the aspect of Bess having a ghost friend. It wasn't my ideal book as it didn't have any cats in, apart from the one Humph chased. Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen and stage, including My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came and Kensuke's Kingdom. Michael has 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. acts in one book. That surely is some talent. Emotional, funny, adventurous I can probably use all those words to describe this book. I liked Will the best. He is really good. urn:oclc:799052404 Republisher_date 20120926120643 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120921044206 Scanner scribe28.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition)

Delightful and heart warming tale of a distant descendent of Sir Walter Raleigh, meeting his ghost! And as a result an even more amazing story emerges from this meeting. Another great book by this fantastic children's author! 7 out of 12, Three Star read. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-07-12 17:37:49 Boxid IA158606 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor But when Bess's older brother Will comes, it becomes hard to do that, and one day he finds his fishing rod tangled and messy in the state Walter left it after fishing. Bess knows he has because her gran found some fish in the kitchen in the morning, and Bess gets blamed, which she finds very annoying.Then Bess meets a man, who introduces himself as Walter Raleigh! She;s an ancestor of him, a descendent, and Bess then decides to bring him home with her. Bess has always been known for making up stories - so perhaps Sir Walter was also imaginary, but the reader knows better. We get to learn about the real life of an important historical figure, rather than the basic facts (and misinterpretations) that everyone knows. This story is sweet and charming, with no real problems that are always magically solved by the end. My main reason for rating this three stars, is the confusing mix of language used by the ghost. At times, he uses early modern phrases such as “cur” and “mere trifle” and other times sounds entirely post-modern. I appreciate that for a younger audience, the obsolete language and grammar may have been more difficult to understand, but I definitely think it would have given more realism to the ghostly figure. Also, I find it a little creepy that the ghost only reveals himself as the child character holds a striking similarity to his late wife, but perhaps that’s just me reading too much into it.