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War Horse is a British war novel by Michael Morpurgo.It was first published in Great Britain by Kaye & Ward in 1982. The story recounts the experiences of Joey, a horse bought by the Army for service in World War I in France and the attempts of 15-year-old Albert, his previous owner, to bring him safely home.
War Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by writer Michael Morpurgo, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought "they must be mad" to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel; but the play was a great success. [ 1 ]
The publicity strategy for War Horse unusually featured preview screenings for the public in U.S. heartland areas before either the critics were shown the film or it was screened to the public in major metropolitan areas. The first preview screenings of War Horse were held at various locations across the United States on 1, 2 and 10 November 2011.
Killing Crazy Horse focuses on the American frontier during the 1800s and the clashes between settlers and Native Americans. O'Reilly and Dugard tell the story of American expansion out West through Native American warriors such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Cochise, Black Hawk and Red Cloud; U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant; and General George Armstrong Custer ...
The White Stag is a children's book, written and illustrated by Kate Seredy. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature and received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The White Stag is a mythical retelling that follows the warrior bands of Huns and Magyars across Asia and into Europe, including the life of Attila ...
The Rider on the White Horse and Selected Stories. Translated by James Wright, New York Review of Books Classics, 2009. Reprinted from Signet's Classics, 1964. The Dykemaster, translated by Denis Jackson, 1996. The Rider on the White Horse, translated by Margarete Münsterberg, Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol XV, 1917. Pg. 179
The story takes place in the early years of the Cold War and centers on U.S. Army Colonel Bryan Kelly, whose plane has crash-landed on the Asiatic mainland. With him are his two sons, his wife, the pilot and co-pilot, and ten enlisted men. The sixteen prisoners are held captive by the Communist guerrilla chief Pi Ying, who forces Kelly to play ...
The Reading Teacher remarked that the book's division into 19 chapters makes it a good text to spread out over multiple readings, and praised Sutcliff's "graceful, powerful language". [5] Sutcliff's prose is praised also in Books to Build On , a collection of teaching resources edited by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. [ 6 ] A Common Core handbook suggests ...