Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best-loved writers for children. He has written over 100 books and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Whitbread Award. His recent bestselling novels include ‘Shadow', ‘A Medal for Leroy' and ‘Little Manfred'.His novel ‘War Horse' has been successfully adapted as a West End and Broadway theatre play and a major film by Steven Spielberg. A former Children's Laureate, Michael is also the co-founder, with his wife Clare, of the charity Farms for City Children.
<p><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">From master storyteller MICHAEL MORPURGO, and illustrated by the award-winning EMMA CHICHESTER CLARK, comes a surprising, charming and uplifting twist on The Wizard of Oz, told by a very special and unforgettable character: Dorothy’s pet dog, Toto. A perfect, collectible gift for all children (and children at heart).</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">“I was there,” Papa Toto said, and those magic words sent shivers down my spine. It was going to be the Wizard story. “Dorothy and me were both there.”</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">We were all silent, snuggled up together, waiting, waiting.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Then Papa Toto began…</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">When a twister descends on their Kansas farm, Toto and his owner Dorothy hide in the house – only to be plucked into the air and whisked away!</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Coming down with a crash in the mysterious land of Oz, the pair meet a series of extraordinary characters: a scarecrow who believes he has no brains, a tin man without a heart, and a cowardly lion who may not be as cowardly as he thinks he is.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">But Toto and Dorothy are desperate to return home – after all, home is home, and home is best! So they set off with their new friends on a journey down the yellow brick road to find the only person who might be able to help them: the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">But what they find might surprise them. And on the way, all of them will learn that what they think they are missing might have been there, all along…</span><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><br style="outline: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Beautifully illustrated throughout, this is an unforgettable telling of a classic story, and a must for every bookshelf.</span><br></p>
