The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips - Hardcover

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Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

Michael Foreman is one of the world’s best-loved children’s book illustrators. He has written and illustrated a vast range of books and has collaborated with many leading children’s authors including Michael Morpurgo and Terry Jones. His own books include the classics War Boy and War Game, winners of the Kate Greenaway Award and Smarties Book Prize respectively.

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The incredible tale of a deserted village, a lifelong friendship, and one very adventurous cat...

“Classic Morpurgo brilliance” Bookseller’s Choice, Publishing News

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“Something’s up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it’s all anyone talks about. It’s like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we’ll ever see the sun again.”

It’s 1943, and Lily Tregenza lives on a farm in the idyllic seaside village of Slapton. Apart from her father being away, and the ‘townie’ evacuees at school, her life is scarcely touched by the war. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with 3000 other villagers, are told to move out of their homes – lock, stock and barrel.

Soon, the whole area is out of bounds, as the Allied forces practise their landings for D-day, preparing to invade France. But Tips, Lily’s adored cat, has other ideas – barbed wire and keep-out signs mean nothing to her, nor does the danger of guns and bombs. Frantic to find her, Lily makes friends with two young American soldiers, who promise to help her. But will she ever see her cat again? Lily decides to cross the wire into the danger zone to look for Tips herself…

Now, many years later, as Michael is reading his Grandma Lily’s diary, he learns about The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – and wonders how one adventurous cat could still affect their lives sixty years later.

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MICHAEL MORPURGO is one of the most well-known and best-loved children’s authors. He has written over ninety books, short stories, screenplays and two musicals, and has won many prizes, both here and in Europe, including the Red House Children’s Book Award for Private Peaceful and Kensuke’s Kingdom, the Whitbread Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Writers’ Guild Award and the Smarties Prize for The Butterfly Lion.

Michael lives in Devon with his wife, Clare, and both were awarded MBEs for their work in founding the charity, Farms for City Children. During Michael’s role as Children’s Laureate, he has travelled the country from end to end, bringing books to children in remote areas as well as to innercity children. Through the power of his storytelling, Michael has done exactly what he set out to do – to put ‘literature back into literacy’!