King of the Cloud Forests

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It turned out to have been the worst mistake he could have ever made – and one which he must put right before it is too late. In the 1930s, Ashley, a 14-year-old Westerner, is forced to leave China and travel through Tibet with a Tibetan doctor. To touch the lives of children, to witness their listening and reading silence, is reward enough in itself. When the Japanese invade, Ashley and Uncle Sung head for the hills to escape, but, the hills in question being the Himalayas, they get into trouble and are separated and Ashley's adventure begins. A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller.

With nothing but the shirt on his back and a bottle of water, Will must learn to survive deep in the jungle. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Además, el autor va plantando elementos que parecen importantes, pero que luego no pintan nada; y cierra la novela con demasiadas casualidades.Look out for Morpurgo’s other war fiction including War Horse, Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya and An Eagle in the Snow. King of the Cloud Forests is the story of Ashley Anderson, the son of a missionary working in China. Ashley, left alone, befriends a tribe of yetis, and for the rest of his life, longs for their peaceful, gentle world.

Ashley is uncomfortable with his new status, particularly when he faces tests, as the Yetis expect him to have magical powers. Thomas Peaceful is a young soldier looking back at his childhood from the battlefields of the First world War. A boy, fleeing for his life when the Japanese invade China, forms a relationship with the mythical Tibetan yetis and miraculously survives winter in the Himalayas. A son and grandson of actors, Michael has acting in his blood and enjoys collaborating and performing live adaptations of his books at festivals, concerts and theatres.They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus.