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Best Mates
Michael Morpurgo


A collection of six magical and heart-warming animal stories, specially for World Book Day, by the nation’s favourite storyteller.From the author who brought you Joey the War Horse, Shadow the dog and Kaspar the cat comes a pocket-sized collection of perfect animal stories – proving that it’s not just dogs that are man’s best friends…Taken from the length of Michael Morpurgo’s career, the tales in this charming book will delight any child who loves animals … or stories! Readers will return to the best mates in this little book again and again.From dogs to cats, and from horses to dolphins and whales, it’s all here in this timeless treasury.Contains the stories:• The Silver Swan• It’s a Dog’s Life• Snug• Didn’t We Have a Lovely Time?• Dolphin Boy• This Morning I Met a Whale























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This collection first published in Great Britain by

HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2015

HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,

1 London Bridge Street

London, SE1 9GF

The HarperCollins website address is: www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

Snug, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 1974, first published in the collection

It Never Rained in 1974 by Macmillan

The Silver Swan, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2000, first published in 2000

by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House

It’s A Dog’s Life, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2001, first published in 2001

by Egmont UK limited

Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time? text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2010,

first published in 2010 in Country Life

Dolphin Boy, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2004

by Anderson Press Ltd

This Morning I Met A Whale, text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2008,

first published in 2008 by Walker Books Ltd

Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

Michael Morpurgo asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.

Source ISBN: 9780008118570

Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008135010

Version: 2015-02-04


Contents

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Copyright




Snug




The Silver Swan




It’s a Dog’s Life




Didn’t We Have a Lovely Time?




Dolphin Boy




This Morning I Met a Whale

Also by Michael Morpurgo

About the Publisher




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