This book was recognised by the Children's Book Award. It was recognised by the Whitbread Book Award.
There are 150 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Egmont UK Ltd .
Christian Birmingham graduated in illustration from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1991, and is one of the most talented artists of his generation. Timothee de Fombelle is a much-admired French playwright. Initially working as a teacher/lecturer, he soon turned to writing and in 2006 produced his first novel, Toby Alone, known in his native France as Tobie Lolness. Highly acclaimed, it has been translated into 22 different languages and has won numerous prizes. Toby's extraordinary story continues in Toby and the Secrets of the Tree. Francois Place is one of France's leading artists and is also a well-praised fiction writer. Some of his best works include Les Derniers Geants ("The Last Giants"), Le Vieux Fou de Dessin ("The Old Man Crazy About Drawing") and L'Atlas des Geographes ("The Atlas of the Geographers of Orbae"). He lives in France. Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.
This book contains the following story:
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Laura Perryman lives on Bryher, one of the Scilly isles with her twin brother, Billy, and her mother and father and her Granny May. They have four milking cows, and of course, a fishing boat. Billy is fourteen years old and bored with the unending milking routine so when the General Lee, bound for New York, calls at St. Mary's for repairs to the mizzen mast Billy secures his passage as a cabin boy. He has left the islands before his parents know anything about it. Laura has lost her twin brother and is devastated. So are her parents. Then ill fortune besets the family, and a storm devastates everything on the island. Things seem hopeless until the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks, and suddenly everything changes . . .
