by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007486441
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«Private Peaceful» is the historical young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo, published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Tommo Peaceful, a young British soldier in World War I, recalls his childhood in the English countryside from the front. Memories of his mother, his brothers and his friendship with Molly intertwine with the harshness of war; Morpurgo addresses love, loyalty and the injustice of courts-martial for cowardice or desertion.
Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the California Young Readers Medal, and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 12, with an interest in historical and war fiction set during 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.
