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Out of the Ashes by: Michael Morpurgo List Price: £4.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.49 You Save: £0.50 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780330400176 ISBN: 0330400177 Label: Macmillan Children's Books Manufacturer: Macmillan Children's Books Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: June 07, 2002 Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Macmillan Children's Books Sales Rank: 57246 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: 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. Synopsis: This story is not a story at all. It all happened. On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot and mouth disease breaks out on a pig farm hundreds of miles from the Morley's Devon home, but soon the nightmare is a few fields away. Local sheep are infected and every animal is destroyed. Will the Morley's flock be next? Will their pedigree diary herd, the sows with their piglets, and Little Josh, Becky's hand-reared lamb, survive? Or will they be slaughtered too? The waiting and hoping is the most agonizing experience of Becky's life... Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - superfragalisticxpalladoshasThis 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. She is devastated read the rest of the book to find out the ending go on give the book a try it is a really good book if I love it then so will you for all those people out there give the book a try. This book is for 11-14's. My best character was Becky Morley because she was brave about her animals getting the foot and mouth disease My emotions were happy in half of the book and sad in the other part of the book. This story is not a story at all it really happened. This book is written by Michael morpurgo Illustrated by Michael foreman. ... Read More: Rating: - Upsetting but brilliant storyThis 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. It is about a girl named Becky she lives with both of her parents. It is all set on a farm. Suddenly something terrible happens on their farm. The animals get foot and mouth disease, they have to be slaughtered. I think Becky is a really brave girl because she coped with all of this. Are the family ever going to be able to live knowing the tragedy that has happened? This is a very emotional story (It made me cry) but it has a really good ending. It`s a fantastic story. It took me 2 days to read this book; it was that great I could not put it down. I would recommend the ages ... Read More: Rating: - The Best Michael Morpurgo BookThis 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. Rating: - Sad but trueI think you have to be over 7 to understand the sadness Becky went through. Rating: - 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 and their families. It is quite a sad but fulfilling read. |
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