The Silver Swan
Michael Morpurgo, Christian Birmingham
  • Published: 5 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780552546140
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $24.99

The Silver Swan

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An exquisite picture book, telling the romantic story of a family of swans and the boy who watches over them.

A boy living by a Scottish loch sees a beautiful silver swan land on the water. She remains at the loch, mates and there are soon five cygnets too. The boy watches them in awe and pride. When snowy winter sets in, all the birds and animals around the loch must scavenge desperately for food. The fox also has cubs to feed...

A remarkably dramatic and compassionate story about Nature, magnificently told and stunningly illustrated with sweeping pastel landscapes.
  • Published: 5 October 2001
  • ISBN: 9780552546140
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the authors

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo has written over 120 books, many of them award-winning. His most well-known work, War Horse, was adapted into a multi-Oscar nominated film by Steven Spielberg, and a widely-acclaimed play at the National Theatre.

In 2003 Michael became the third Children's Laureate, a position he helped create with the poet Ted Hughes.

With his wife, Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999.

portrait photo of Michael Morpurgo

Christian Birmingham

Michael Morpurgo is one of today's most popular and critically acclaimed children's writers, author of KENSUKE'S KINGDOM and THE WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR amongst many other titles. He has won a multitude of prizes including the Children's Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Writer's Guild Award.

Praise for The Silver Swan

An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings

Publishers Weekly

A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book

Guardian

Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world

Junior Education

A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan

Literary Review

Beautifully craftered . . . not a word too many, not a word out of place . . . Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike

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