She is not having an easy time of it, as I'm sure not many women had during both world wars, but she still manages to be very caring and stubborn in all the right ways. But it was his eyes that marked him out from any other man I had ever seen for they drew you into them somehow so that you could not look away even if you wanted to. They build up a lovely friendship with him, but when the children get stranded on Samson Island, they don’t know whether to believe the birdman’s story that the island is cursed. Together Birdman and the children stop them killing the narhwals, and turn the whales back out to sea.

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They look down the beach and find him crouching next to a huge creature that looked to be a log but was moving.Wonderfully written, of course, I could feel myself there on the island being buffeted by the wind and smelling the sea air. He travels all over the UK and abroad talking to people of all ages at literary festivals, telling his stories and encouraging them to tell theirs. It is about two friends Gracie and Daniel who develop a good relationship with a man that they have always been told to stay away from because he is 'crazy'.

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His work will undoubtedly, like Peter Pan, stand the test of time, making him a truly worthy recipient of this award. The pack even goes a step further by offering a selection of resources and activities at the end of the pack to support teachers in the classroom.He has won numerous awards including those voted for by children themselves, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Children’s Book Award.

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Finally, the stranded whale is released back to where it came from and the islanders believe that the curse had been lifted. Zachariah Woodcock—A deaf old man that lives in a cottage away from all the island people also known as the Birdman. I got through the first part and got to the interesting part, where I was more willing to read for pleasure.I enjoyed reading it in class, but didn't appreciate how the complexity of the story or even how beautifully it is written.

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Love for one's family, community and home verses the fear of a looming war, of people who are different and ghosts of the past. One day when Gracie arrived a school, Daniel told her that Big Tim, his brother, was sure that the Birdman was a spy, signalling German submarines to the island. Michael has written more than forty books 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. An exciting historical adventure from War Horse author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo. Overall I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to others younger than me and others around my age.All my life I had thought he would have the predatory look of an ancient crow under the shadow of his sou'wester.