Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 2011 war drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis. It is based on Michael Morpurgo 's 1982 novel of the same name and its 2007 stage adaptation .
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 ]
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo OBE FRSL FKC DL (né Bridge; 5 October 1943) [1] is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).
Staff Sergeant Reckless (c. 1948 – May 13, 1968), a decorated warhorse who held official rank in the United States military, [1] was a mare of Mongolian horse breeding. Out of a racehorse dam, [a] she was purchased in October 1952 for $250 (equivalent to $3,000 in 2024) [2] from a Korean stableboy at the Seoul racetrack who needed money to buy an artificial leg for his sister. [3]
Farm Boy is a British children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo, and illustrated by Michael Foreman. The book is the sequel to the popular novel War Horse. The book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997 by Pavilion Books. It was republished in 1999 by HarperCollins Children's Book. [1] The novel was adapted into a stage play in 2010.
Merrill started writing books while working at Literary Cavalcade, including Henry, The Hand-Painted Mouse (1951) and The Woover (1952). Merrill received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963 for The Superlative Horse. [4] In 1964, Merrill published her best-known work, The Pushcart War, for which she won her second Lewis Carroll Shelf Award ...
War of the Worlds: Yes No No [29] Munich: Yes Yes No [30] 2008 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Yes No No [31] 2011 The Adventures of Tintin: Yes Yes No Also lighting consultant and uncredited virtual camera operator [32] War Horse: Yes Yes No [33] 2012 Lincoln: Yes Yes No [34] 2015 Bridge of Spies: Yes Yes No [35] 2016 The ...