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From former Children's Laureate and award-winning author Michael Morpurgo comes "The Sleeping Sword", reissued with a beautiful new cover. When Bun Bendle is struck blind he feels like he is drowning in blackness. But the discovery of an ancient tomb and a strangely familiar sword changes him forever.For Bun, a centuries-old power may lead to a bright future.
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Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country. Michael has written more than forty books 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. His novels have been adapted for film (My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came) and stage (including, Kensuke's Kingdom for the Polka Theatre and Why the Whales Came for Alibi). In 2006, Michael received an OBE for his services to children's literature.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Interweaving the story of a blind boy who lives on the Scilly Isles, with the myth and truth of King Arthur, Michael Morpurgo takes the reader deep inside the mind of a boy who seems ordinary but is really anything but. The story is told by the boy, Bun, in the first person, as his own true story that becomes a story from his imagination about discovering a very special sword and shield in a tomb on his father's farm. But within that story he dreams another story about the quest he is compelled to take on because of that sword and shield ... confused yet? I read it to my nine-year old son and he enjoyed it but I'm not sure how much of it he understood. I certainly found it difficult to know what layer of the story we were within. The confusion was not helped by the unconventional typeface that the publisher has chosen to typeset it in.
If your child is fascinated by the legends of King Arthur, they will probably enjoy this but they will definitely need a certain literary maturity to gain much out of it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is about a boy called Bun who ends up blind after hitting his head on a rock. He falls into a hole with a sword and a shield in it. Bun has a dream about his friend and him bringing the sword, Excalibur, back to Arthur. When he wakes he is not blind any more.
I enjoyed reading this book even though the plot and the language were hard to understand at times.It made me realise it must be terrible to be blind.
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I brought this book for my mother and she's thrilled to bits with it i asked her last night on how far she got with it and then i was told that it was finished as she couldn't put it down lol!
so im guessing it was a good buy after all haha! ;)
so im guessing it was a good buy after all haha! ;)
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