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The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
“Something’s up. Something big too, very big. At school, in the village, whoever you meet, it’s all anyone talks about. It’s like a sudden curse has come down on us all. It makes me wonder if we’ll ever see the sun again.”
It’s 1943. Battles are raging across Europe, but the idyllic seaside village where Lily lives is scarcely touched by the war. But one day, Lily’s family and 3000 other villagers are told to leave their homes: no exceptions, no arguments. Soon the whole area is blockaded by razor-wire and keep-out signs, behind which Allied forces prepare for D-day. But no-one tells Adolphus Tips, Lily’s beloved cat, where he can and can’t go. And when Adolphus disappears into the danger zone, with Lily in pursuit, what they find behind the barbed wire will change their lives forever… A heartwarming tale of courage set in the Second World War.
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bookwitch111
12 Mar 2008
loved it
I am currently reading this book. I have found it brilliant. I got the book yesterday and I am already on page 72. It is about a grandmother’s diary from 1943. There is Lily, Barry and as far as I know he is called skunkhead. This book is brilliant. I would certainly recommend it for EVERYBODY. I rate it as 5 star.
quckers
6 Mar 2008
loved it
it is a really sweet book. i would have cried if i wasen t in school. morpurgo is as good as jk in my opinon!
Clevergirl
28 Feb 2008
loved it
It is really good. If you like history, animal or emotional books this is the one for you
Cheerio
23 Feb 2008
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This book is really good because when I had red the first bit of it I got really into it and wanted to keep on reading and couldn’t stop reading.I liked the way Michael Morpurgo set the book out during war time and I liked the way he said that Tips had other ideas rather than going elsewhere.
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Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids - it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.” Today, Michael has written over 100 books for children, and has won a multitude of awards as well as serving as Children’s Laureate from 2003-2005.
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Michael has won The Whitbread Prize For Wreck of the Zanzibar, the Smarties prize for The Butterfly Lion and the Children's Book Award for Kensuke's Kingdom and Private Peaceful.
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