King of the Cloud Forests

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As he grows up, he fails to become attuned to the harshness of people around him and misses the warmth of close companionship of the Yetis and the clear clean air of the mountains - and he lives in the hope of going back and living with them again.

They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. When Shadow, a bomb-sniffing spaniel, goes missing in the middle of wartorn Afghanistan, his soldier-owner is devastated. Until one day, Lily and her family, along with the other villagers, are told to move out of their homes. Sheltering in a tunnel, the stranger in the carriage with Barney and his mother tells them a story of a young soldier in the trenches of World War I who, on the spur of the moment, did what he thought was the right thing. Michael Morpurgo was my favourite author as a kid and if I was 10 perhaps I would have rated this book a little higher.

Escaping from China as the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung embark on a perilous journey across the Himalayas. His latest book is Boy Giant published by Harper Collins Children’s Books and Owl or Pussycat illustrated by Polly Dunbar and published by David Fickling Books.

In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. When he realises that Paco is destined for the struggle of the bullring he leads him to safety in the mountains, where their lives are changed by the civil war.

I said in my comments as I was reading the book that it was like watching an experienced tightrope walker performing her act and thinking 'that looks easy enough'.