Young Michael Morpurgo always loved the small painting of a boat hanging on Aunty Iris's wall. But all she would ever say about it was that her beloved Alfie had painted it and given it to her years ago-before he'd left for France during World War II and had never come back. Michael decides to try and find out what happened to Alfie himself. He embarks on a journey that takes him to the marshes of an English coastal village and across the Channel into France, learning a profound lesson along the way about service and the surprising endurance of memory.
Children’s: picture books - activity books - early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues
Hardback
Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman
80 pages
H: 271mm W: 208mm Spine: 10mm