First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
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Text copyright © Michael Morpurgo 2018
Jacket photographs © Maria Castellanos/Shutterstock (flying flamingos); Stefano Garau/Shutterstock (front cover flamingo); Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock (flying flamingos at sunrise); blickwinkel/Alamy Stock Photo (bull); Christian Hütter/Alamy Stock Photo (flamingo frieze); Pixelheld/Shutterstock (dunes); gyn9037/Shutterstock (dark clouds); bepsy/Shutterstock (swamp); saranya33/Shutterstock (sunset); Sergey Uryadnikov/Shutterstock (Camargue horses); Nataliya Hora/Shutterstock (carousel); Stephen Mulcahey/Arcangel (boy)
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Cover image of Flamingo Boy written by Michael Morpurgo
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Source ISBN: 9780008134631
Ebook Edition © 2018 ISBN: 9780008134662
Version: 2018-09-04
For Alan, for Lorens, and their mum and dad
Contents
Chapter 1: Someone Called Vincent
Chapter 2: My Near-death Experience
Chapter 3: The Long, Straight Road to Nowhere
Chapter 5: A Complete Flamingo
Chapter 6: How it Was, How We Were
Chapter 7: The Charbonneau Carousel
Chapter 12: Be Proud and Carry On
Chapter 13: The Day the Music Died
Chapter 15: Not in Front of Lorenzo
Chapter 17: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Chapter 21: Patience is a Virtue
Chapter 22: An Accident, A Casualty
Chapter 27: A Light in the Darkness
Chapter 28: A Knock at the Door
Chapter 29: Free at Last! Free Again!
Chapter 30: Old Years Pass, New Years Come
With thanks to Anne-Sophie Deville who first introduced us to her flamingos and to the beauty and mystery of her beloved Camargue