by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780008522919
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«Jemima the Pig and the 127 Acorns», by Michael Morpurgo, is a children's story in paperback (65 pages, in English) published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks.
A city boy spends a week on a farm and discovers gardens, animals and rural life. He meets Jemima, a pig who escapes to steal potatoes and is the queen of the farm. When Jemima starts to feel unwell, the question is whether it was the acorns the boy gives her or whether the pig is hiding a secret.
First instalment of the Farm Tales series, presented as «A Farms for City Children Tale», with illustrations by Guy Parker-Rees; World Book Day 2022 edition.
Aimed at early readers and children aged 5 to 8, especially those who enjoy stories about animals and rural life.
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.
