Michael Morpurgo is one of today's most popular and critically acclaimed children's writers, author of KENSUKE'S KINGDOM and THE WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR amongst many other titles. He has won a multitude of prizes including the Children's Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Writer's Guild Award.
A chokingly moving, unsentimental story of a boy's attachment to a swan * Literary Review * An awe-inspiring and poignant glimpse of nature's inner workings * Publishers Weekly * Beautifully craftered . . . not a word too many, not a word out of place . . . Birmingham's dramatic images hauntingly recreate the spellbinding text. A masterpiece to be reasured by young and old alike * Carousel * Moments of rage and poignancy . . . Christian Birmingham's atmospheric pictures powerfully expose the terrible beauty of the real world * Junior Education * A book for the whole family to treasure, the artwork shines with a strangely luminous beauty. A truly wonderful book * Guardian *