Across frozen mountains and stormy seas, through steamy jungles and dusty savannahs, the classic heroes and modern-day adventurers featured here battle against nature, unexpected enemies - and sometimes even themselves. This carefully selected collection combines classic stories of daring and achievement with contemporary tales by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Jill Paton Walsh and Clive King himself. Illustrated throughout with dramatic line drawings, this is a fantastic introduction to many great writers and a great present for any action-loving child.

 

This book is part of a book series called Red Hot Reads .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Pan Macmillan .

Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He is currently the Children's Laureate. Andrew Davidson is an acclaimed illustrator. The engravings he did for Ted Hughes' book The Iron Man won him the 1986 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Gloucestershire.