Michael Foreman

Traces the path of an English soccer player, from his boyhood fantasies of being an admired athlete, to his realization of that dream as a member of the national team competing for the World Cup.

Dog takes care of a trio of kittens when their mother, Cat, gets trapped in a fisherman's van while trying to find breakfast.

Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape.

Jamal is a little camel so he must walk, walk, walk through the desert. One day he becomes separated from his parents and his friend, the boy, but a wise falcon helps to reunite them.

The littlest dinosaur discovers the advantages of being small as he frolics among the lily pads with his new frog friends, and then bravely finds his way home after getting lost in the woods.

The quest of Sir Gawain for the Green Knight teaches him a lesson in pride, humility, and honor. Welcome to a medieval world full of sword fights and shape-shifting, monsters and magic, and timeless characters both gallant and wonderfully human. Written anonymously in the fourteenth century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is retold in its entirety by Michael Morpurgo in a lively and accessible narration that captures all the tale's drama and humor....

One winter, a grandfather and his small grandchild find an owl roost, open owl pellets, install a nest box and watch patiently until spring when they are rewarded with the sight of owls, hunting in their fields and feeding a family in the box they have provided.

The littlest dinosaur thinks he is too small to do much of anything, until his family and neighbors are in trouble and need his help.

Written when the author was ten years old, tells of a dog and a boy who are both lonely until they are included by others.