The Dancing Bear

Michael Morpurgo author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:3rd Mar '03

Should be back in stock very soon

This paperback is available in another edition too:

The Dancing Bear cover

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village -- safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear! / Michael Morpurgo is going from strength to strength: his last novel Born to Run was his best launch yet selling over 36k* HBs in the first 3 months of publication / This new edition will bring this classic story into the new Michael Morpurgo branding to delight a new generation of kids

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by the nation’s favourite storyteller, Michael Morpugo.

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by the nation’s favourite storyteller, Michael Morpugo.

High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village – safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear…

It’s rare to find a story that combines so successfully a contemporary plot and modern morality with a feel for legend and fairy tale.
She Magazine

ISBN: 9780006745112

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 4mm

Weight: 60g

64 pages