by Michael Morpurgo · Ted Smart · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007693245
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«Billy the Kid» is the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo, with illustrations by Michael Foreman, published by Ted Smart in paperback (115 pages, in English).
A boy who loves football and a grandfather who keeps memories of the Second World War are the two poles of this story. Sport unites their experiences and, through the grandfather's memory, the narrative speaks of family, war and how the past remains present in everyday life.
The work was originally published in 2000; this edition is from 2002.
For young readers interested in football and in stories set in wars, with an approach close to family memory.
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.
