The Mozart Question Award-winning team by Michael Morpurgo (author) and Michael Foreman (illustrator) (UK edition)

Paulo Levi is a world-famous violinist, but he will never play Mozart. Why? When Lesley travels to Venice to interview him, she learns the heartbreaking answer. For the first time in his life, Paulo tells the terrible story of how his parents, imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, were forced to play Mozart for the enemy – playing for their lives as fellow Jews were sent to their deaths. Can answering the Mozart Question offer healing at long last?

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406366396

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

November 5th, 2015

Other details

112 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, weaving captivating stories full of drama and intensity that are coming to be regarded as true classics. Exploring the most profound subjects with a light yet powerful touch, his books tell unforgettable stories in simple, direct words.

Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids – it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.”

Living in Devon, listening to Mozart, and working with children have provided most of the stimulae Michael needs to discover and write his stories. He spends about half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories. “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out – the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”