Friend or Foe

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This is a measured, nuanced book where things are not quite what they seem and even a seemingly ordinary beetle that appears over the course of the novel from time to time can have a meaning and purpose to it. We have created an example diary entry for your class to read and also a framed diary entry to help children who perhaps need more structure. At the end it was very nice of david and tucky to help a nazi soldier even though they were the opposite team. Many different aspects of life during the war are touched upon and could be used as a study point, e. This book dealt sensitively with moral issues associated with people's beliefs of right, wrong and loyalty.

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I think this book is well suited to upper KS2 children as the two boys in the story are roughly ten years old and year five and six children would be easily able to relate to them. Friend or Foe tells the story of David and Tucky, as they are evacuated to Exeter from Blitz torn London during the Second World War. During a night of bombing David and he’s friend Tucky discover a German bomber has crash landed in the moors, the pair are both morally conflicted if they should helping the airman. I thought that friend or foe was a interesting,adventurous and amazing because when i read it it made me feel interested and and adventurous. Between lending a hand on the farm and attending the one-classroom village school, they spend their days exploring the fields and woods of the area, and thoroughly enjoying themselves.

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You do want Junior and Hen to kiss and make up, you do want Junior to have a fun time in space, and even you do hope that Terrance, as creepy and calculating as he is, gets to complete his mission of transformation and reconciliation of the couple. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. In the tradition of Goodnight Mr Tom, Carrie’s War, and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Friend or Foe is a novel that takes children to the heart of a tumultuous period in history. Michael Morpurgo is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike.That just makes the very ending of the book — not to carp, but its really endings plural — all the more mortifying.

Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo - BBC Teach English KS2: Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo - BBC Teach

In this activity, your Ks2 class will identify the speech by either highlighting the inverted commas or adding them in to the passage or sentences. During the second world war two young boys, played by John Holmes and Mark Luxford, are evacuated from London to the countryside by train. Friend or Foe is a historical fiction novel about World War II, that grips the reader from the start.This book is about David and Tucky they see a German bomber plan and they help the Germans but the German gives up when trying to escape from the countryside and the Yeo boys are from London but had to be evacuated because of the war one German wanted to give him self up one wanted to escape but got caught by a milkman . Many years later after the war, the two men visit the city which was at war, now it is quiet and peaceful again. Michael Morpurgo has written more than forty books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal four times.

English KS2: Friend or Foe. 1: Leaving London - BBC Teach English KS2: Friend or Foe. 1: Leaving London - BBC Teach

I really do think that I now have a new favourite author, Canadian or otherwise, to champion, and I hope that there’s more like this one in the author’s book writing pipeline. There was nothing threatening or frightening about them, they were just two exhausted, pale-looking men with sad eyes and kind faces.

He sits outside the series-driven blockbusters so beloved of publishers nowadays: he hasn't created a Harry Potter or an Alex Rider – and I admire him for resisting that. In November 2016 Michael Morpurgo won the J M Barrie Award for his contribution to children’s literature.