MY FRIEND WALTER

A hilarious tale of history come to life. From the nation’s favourite storytellerMichael Morpurgo best-selling author of War Horse.Living with a ghost can have its difficulties I discovered even if he is your friend.Remember Sir Walter Raleigh who laid his cloak in a puddle so Queen Elizabeth I could walk across? Well Bess meets his ghost and finds out she’s his ancestor!How will Bess explain Sir Walter to her family? Especially when he breaks her brother’s fishing rod steals a horse and smokes cigars in her room?My Friend Walter is a uniquely funny story perfect for reluctant readers from the author of War Horse.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.Michael Morpurgo's book 'There Once is a Queen' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 06-06-2022.