Best Mates
Michael Morpurgo
A collection of six magical and heart-warming animal stories, specially for World Book Day, by the nation’s favourite storyteller.From the author who brought you Joey the War Horse, Shadow the dog and Kaspar the cat comes a pocket-sized collection of perfect animal stories – proving that it’s not just dogs that are man’s best friends…Taken from the length of Michael Morpurgo’s career, the tales in this charming book will delight any child who loves animals … or stories! Readers will return to the best mates in this little book again and again.From dogs to cats, and from horses to dolphins and whales, it’s all here in this timeless treasury.Contains the stories:• The Silver Swan• It’s a Dog’s Life• Snug• Didn’t We Have a Lovely Time?• Dolphin Boy• This Morning I Met a Whale
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This collection first published in Great Britain by
HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2015
HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,
1 London Bridge Street
London, SE1 9GF
The HarperCollins website address is: www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
Snug, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 1974, first published in the collection
It Never Rained in 1974 by Macmillan
The Silver Swan, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2000, first published in 2000
by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House
It’s A Dog’s Life, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2001, first published in 2001
by Egmont UK limited
Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time? text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2010,
first published in 2010 in Country Life
Dolphin Boy, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2004
by Anderson Press Ltd
This Morning I Met A Whale, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2008,
first published in 2008 by Walker Books Ltd
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com
Michael Morpurgo asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.
Source ISBN: 9780008118570
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008135010
Version: 2015-02-04
Contents
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Title Page (#u686a41fd-5925-5403-aa93-3f3014e99b1c)
Copyright
Snug
The Silver Swan
It’s a Dog’s Life
Didn’t We Have a Lovely Time?
Dolphin Boy
This Morning I Met a Whale
Also by Michael Morpurgo
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