by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007105472
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«Billy the Kid» is a children’s and young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Billy turns eighty and looks back on his life from old age: as a young man he fulfilled his dream of playing as a striker for Chelsea in the 1930s, but the Second World War took him into the army and into experiences that marked him forever. Football, war, family and old age intertwine in his story.
Novel with historical and sporting background, illustrated by Michael Foreman and published in 2002.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 11, especially for fans of football and history.
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or the trenches of the First World War. Morpurgo was the third Children's Laureate, from 2003 to 2005, and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity.
