Product Description

This is an exciting ghostly adventure by a much-loved, award winning author. Remember Sir Walter Raleigh who laid his cloak in a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I to walk across? Well, Bess meets his ghost and finds out he's her ancestor! How's she going to explain him to her family, especially when he breaks her brother's fishing rod, steals a horse and smokes cigars in her room? Will Sir Walter wreak havoc or save her family's home?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41507 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Michael Morpurgo: The Master Storyteller. Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction. One of the most successful children's authors in the country, and loved by children, teachers and parents alike. Michael has written more than forty books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. His novels have been adapted for film (My Friend Walter, Why the Whales Came) and stage (most recently, Kensuke's Kingdom for the Polka Theatre and Why the Whales Came by for Alibi.)

Customer Reviews

My Friend Walter
It's a good book. im only 9 and i read lots and lots of books, and this book is maybe one of my top five books.

Lucy (Or Mousey is my nickname in school)

My Friend Walter: A Review
Overall I think My Friend Walter is a great novel! There are so many surprises along the way from the very beginning to the very end of this exiting adventure! I'd recommend it to anyone, young and old alike. Not only is the book full of fun, laughter and mischief, but Morpurgo also teachs you the importance of friendship along the way.
Too cut a long story short, here is a brief idea of the storyline! A girl called Bess goes to a party, where she meets an old man. This old man isn't just any old man, but a ghost! The ghost if Sir Walter Raleigh. Walter gets Bess to free him him from the Bloody Tower and convices her to take him hometo the farm she lives on. On the farm Bess and Walter get up to all sorts of mischief and all is well. Until disaster strikes! Bess and her family have to sell up and leave the farm. But Walter has a trick up his sleeve! To discover it I'll leavde it up to you to read Morpurgo's book.

Excellent - I'd recommend it to anyone
The children at the school where I work have just finished reading 'My Friend Walter' as a class, and I was as hooked on it as they were.

The characters are all brought to life beautifully, with interesting and witty observations of how life would have been for Sir Walter Raleigh. The children probably learnt far more about Raleigh from reading this story than they would have done from a textbook of facts, and they extended their knowledge into classroom activities and writing techniques.

I missed the last chapter due to illness, and I was so keen not to miss out, that I had to borrow a copy from school to finish it at home!