![]() ![]() ![]() The spirit of rural life is superbly captured in both Michael Morpurgo s writing and Michael Foreman s illustrations. The story is set in Iddesleigh in Devon and lovingly evokes the bonds between farm and farmer grandson and grandfather. Farm Boy brings us forward fifty years with Grandpa not only telling his grandson, Joey s story but also a shameful secret which he has held for years - Grandpa has never learned to read and write. Grandpa had joined the cavalry in order to find, and fight, with Joey. In War Horse, published twelve years ago, Joey was sent away from the farm to be a warhorse in WWI. Joey was the last working horse on the farm, and the apple of Grandpa s eye. Superbly told by a master storyteller and stunningly illustrated by Michael Foreman - an exquisite book. ![]() Set on a farm in rural Devon, Farm Boy is a collection of Grandpa s reminiscences and stories touchingly told to his grandson. Category: Children Children Fiction Children General Fiction-Cgf ![]()
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