Toro! Toro! - Michael Morpurgo (2001-1st) Children's Novel, Michael Foreman Ilst

Toro! Toro! (First Edition)Michael Morpurgo; Illustrated by Michael Foreman\nPublished by HarperCollins, London, 2001. First edition, with full number string to '1' to denote a first impression. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine ends with bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have some light age toning, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped minor creasing to the edges. Vg overall. \nBest-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman. TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little black calf and they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls \u2013 the corrida and death. Later, when he learns of the horrors of the bull fight, he frees Paco, thy