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Out of the Ashes (Paperback)

by Michael Morpurgo (Author), Michael Foreman (Illustrator)
4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books (20 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033039732X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330397322
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 841,362 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Out of the Ashes by Micheal Morpurgo tells the story of a young girl living on a Devon farm in the midst of a foot-and-mouth epidemic.

Written at a time when foot-and-mouth was very much in the news, as farmers across the UK fell victim to an outbreak that was to leave potent images of blazing carcasses deeply embedded in many minds, Morpurgo cleverly manages to avoid a feeling of haste in his writing (although the book was actually written very quickly, and as a reaction to Morpurgo's own experiences as co-founder of Farms For City Children), by giving the reader a thorough and poignant insight into what it is really like for farmers waiting to find out if they are about to lose their livelihoods.

Worthy? Certainly. But this powerful and moving fictional account of true events does exactly what it sets out to do: inform, entertain and ask important questions. (Ages 8 and over) --Susan Harrison

The Glasgow Herald
...a dark, atmospheric tale and places the reader inside the tired frame of an old lady and forces them to see the world through her bleary eyes. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A " must read " for anyone interested in our countryside, 25 Jul 2001
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This book is incredibly simple and powerful.

Michael Morpurgo has managed to distil so much of the pain and anguish that has been inflicted on farming communities throughout the UK by Fooot and Mouth Disease.

Although written through the eyes of a child, for other children, the simplicity and authenticity of the writing is quite breathtaking.

Many journalists and broadcasters have used millions of words and countless images to bring the ravages of FMD to our living rooms, but this work has the power of personal experience, etched on every line - experience that you have to live through in order to communicate in this way.

The reality of farming is here; not some bucolic never, never land, but a real working environment where animals are not pets, but where they are treated with the inate respect that makes the true stockman. Here is the hard work, the generations of effort, the "feel" for the land and the livestock - unsentimental surely, but realistic and caring in our relationships with our natural and living landscape.

Having seen my family live through all the worry, uncertainty and heartache expressed here, I can only commend this book to anyone who wants to understand just a little better why this plague has been, and continues to be such a heartrendingly cruel blow to rural Britain.

Well done Michael Morpurgo for conveying what so many of us have felt over the last months and been so lamentably unable to express to others.

Please read it!

Richard Ovenstone

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Michael Morpurgo Book, 15 Aug 2006
This review is from: Out of the Ashes (Paperback)
This is by far the best Michael Morpurgo book ever. It's incredibly sad in a couple of places, but it has it's happy moments to. It's all written in a diary format by a girl who's father is a farmer during foot and mouth. Enevitably her farm gets it, and this is when it get's really sad.
I read this in one day because it was so good. There are some very sad bits though, so be for warned.
In all a good book.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Topical, touching, terrific., 21 Jul 2001
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When Becky has a diary for Christmas she promises to write in it every day. She also promises to get on with her mum. She manages to keep neither promise until the day that foot-and-mouth rears its ugly head. Her father struggles to remain strong and it is up to Becky and her mother to pull together.

For a book to be written in such a short time, and be so topical on its release, is amazing if not unique. As a reader who is not directly involved in the foot-and-mouth crisis I feel that Michael Morpurgo has enabled the reader to empathise with the plight of the farmer in these harrowing and distressing times. Once again, Morpurgo is not afraid to deal with death and other difficult topics in his childrens' books.

Definitely one of his more thought provoking reads.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Harsh Reality of Foot and Mouth Disease
This is an incredibly moving book which describes the Foot and Mouth crisis from the point of view of the farmers and their families who lived through it. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Bess_Wheat

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever written
I take about 3 weeks to read a book but this one took me 3 days!!!
Out of the Ashes is the best book ever written by the best ever author. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars superfragalisticxpalladoshas
This book is about a girl ho loved her animals and her farm.
But her animals get a terrible disease called the foot and mouth disease. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr. K. Thomas

5.0 out of 5 stars Upsetting but brilliant story
This book review is about a book called Out of the ashes. It is all true even the drawings except that some of the spellings have been changed, it is also written like a diary... Read more
Published 14 months ago by LH

5.0 out of 5 stars Sad but true
I think you have to be over 7 to understand the sadness Becky went through.
Published on 13 Jun 2006 by Little Bookworm

5.0 out of 5 stars A very moving and inspirational book.
This book is a very very good read for people affected or unaffected by Foot and Mouth. It helps give an insight from a childs perspective into how foot and mouth affected farmers... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2001

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