Product Description
A television reporter's extraordinary experience in the West Bank reveals how children's hopes and dreams for peace and unity can fly higher than any wall built to divide communities and religions. Travelling to the West Bank to witness how life is for Palestinians and Jews living in the shadow of a dividing wall, journalist Max strikes up a friendship with an enigmatic Palestinian boy, Said. Together the two sit under an ancient olive tree while Said makes another of his kites. As Max is welcomed as a guest, he learns of the terrible events in the family's past and begins to understand why Said no longer speaks. Told from both Max's and Said's points of view, Morpurgo has created a beautiful tale of tragedy and hope with an ending that rings with joy.
About the Author
Michael Morpurgo, the 2003-2005 Children's Laureate, is widely recognized as a master storyteller, and has won numerous awards for his work, including the Smarties Book Prize, the Writer's Guild Award and the Children's Book Award (for The Wreck of the Zanzibar). Michael lives in Devon. Francois Place was born in 1957. He studied visual expression at L'Ecole Estienne before completing his first illustrations for the Decouverte Cadet series. He has illustrated many books and has also become a fiction author whose talent has often been highly praised, with Les Derniers Geants ("The Last Giants"), Le Vieux de Dessin ("The Old Man Crazy About Drawing") and L'Atlas des Geographes d'Orbae ("The Atlas of the Geographers of Orbae"). His art has illuminated many great texts and authors.
