Running Wild

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This novel made me laugh and cry from start to finish. I was truly captivated and unable to put it down. The approachable manner in which this is achieved, through the eyes of nine-year-old Will means this book, although will have differing effects on each audience member, is accessible for KS2 pupils and above.

Children's fiction often finds ingenious ways of getting rid of adults, forcing its protagonists to depend on their own resources and initiative. Michael Morpurgo's method here is more drastic than most. By the end of chapter two, nine-year-old Will has lost both parents: his soldier father has been killed in Iraq, and his mother, on a holiday to Indonesia intended to help herself and Will to recover from their loss, drowns in the Boxing Day tsunami. David Wood, chair of Action for Children’s Arts, said Morpurgo is “one of our greatest storytellers”. The KS2 SATs style reading material covers his early life, his involvement with charities and his many achievements.

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Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > Geography: This novel provides deep description and context for rainforest topics. Pupils would be better able to imagine the different layers of the rainforest, understanding the different animals and their struggles. Pupils could use self-chosen extracts of the book to add vivid description to rainforest work/projects. Running wild is a children’s adventure fiction novel. In this novel the story of a young boy named Will is told through captivating chapters. The emotion throughout the novel is strong and the narrative holds deeper conceptual meanings. PSHE: Sections of the book could provide for good discussion topics- requiring pupils to deduct deeper meanings behind Wills feelings and relate this to their own experiences. Pupils can then share and discuss with peers. This Michael Morpurgo ( war horse and other stories) resources ks2 reading comprehension is designed to prepare students for their KS2 SATs English exam. The war horse resources ks2 fact file is presented in the same way as the reading material which students will encounter in their SATs exams.

The idea for this book came from a newspaper article about Aamber Owen, who was saved from the 2004 tsunami by an elephant whom she was riding at the time. Morpurgo had not traced Owen until 2016, and invited her and her family to the opening night of the stage production in London. [2] Morpurgo was also influenced by The Jungle Book and " The Elephant's Child", his two favourite stories from his childhood. [3] This story somewhat changed the way I look at life. Their are many struggles, but with friends and family you can and will make it. The first paragraph in the Charity section begins 'Ten years later...set-up the charity for City Children'. The paragraph before this ends with Michael writing his first book in 1974, which then implies that the Charity was set up in 1984. However, the Charity was set up in 1976, which was ten years after he had started teaching. It might be better to start that paragraph 'Ten years after he had started teaching...' LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.This was a wonderfully descriptive book. The animals were described in great detail and the settings were very visual. A great story about a boy, and how an elephant saves the boy's life from terrible disasters. I could always visualizing what happened. The author, Michael Morpurgo, was very descriptive in this story. I was very surprised by the end, but I loved the end just as it was. I laughed out loud many many times in this story, as well as cried one or two times. Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storyteller An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of Kaspar and Born to Run. After sensing a tsunami Oona an elephant that Will was riding carries him off into the jungle far away till she feels safe. Will survives in the jungle with an elephant and orangutans using instinct and the environment to stay alive.