The Fox and the Ghost King Award-winning team

A ghost king in a car park. Foxes who love football. A Premiership dream come true… Master writer Michael Morpurgo turns Leicester City’s legendary football fairy tale into a dazzling fictional one! In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football. (Here’s a secret: all foxes do.) But their local team just keeps on losing. That is, until Daddy Fox finds the trapped ghost of a dead king. If the foxes release him, he’ll make their greatest wish come true. Can you guess what their wish will be…?

A wonderful fantasy from the king of storytellers

Based on Leicester City’s 2016 Premier League win

Also weaves in the true story of Richard III’s burial

With beautiful line illustrations by Michael Foreman

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780007979868

Date published

June 6th, 2019

Other details

144 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, weaving captivating stories full of drama and intensity that are coming to be regarded as true classics. Exploring the most profound subjects with a light yet powerful touch, his books tell unforgettable stories in simple, direct words.

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.”

Living in Devon, listening to Mozart, and working with children have provided most of the stimulae Michael needs to discover and write his stories. He spends about half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories. “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out – the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”