Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of the UK's best-loved authors for children and young people. He was the third UK Children's Laureate and he has won the Children's Book Award the Nestle Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. There have been many stage and screen adaptations of his books including a major film and award-winning stage play based on War Horse. Michael also set up the charity Farms for City Children with his wife Clare.
<p>Francis and Pieter are brothers. As the shadow of one war lingers and the rumbles of another approach the brothers argue. Francis is a fierce pacifist while Pieter signs up to fight. What happens next will change the course of Francis’s life forever … and throw him into the mouth of the wolf.</p>
