by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007150076
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«Private Peaceful» is Michael Morpurgo’s historical novel for young adults, published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Thomas Peaceful, a young soldier in World War I, narrates this story: over 24 hours at the front, he recalls his childhood in the countryside and the loved ones he left behind. The novel contrasts love, innocence and courage with the cowardice and cruelty of the trenches, and moves towards a moving conclusion about the human cost of war.
The novel won the Blue Peter Book Award and was a finalist for the Whitbread Award; it also received the California Young Readers Medal in the Young Adult category.
Although aimed at readers aged 9 to 12, the novel also reaches adults through its portrayal of World War I.
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.
