by Michael Morpurgo · HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007791125
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«Private Peaceful» is Michael Morpurgo’s historical novel for young readers, published by HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks in hardcover (192 pages, in English).
Private Peaceful follows a young soldier in World War I: over twenty-four hours at the front, he revisits memories of his life, from innocence and love to the harshness of war, and confronts the line between heroism and cowardice.
Private Peaceful won the Blue Peter Book Award in 2005 and the California Young Readers Medal in 2008, and was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Private Peaceful is a read for young people aged 9 and up, common in British school curricula and within historical war fiction.
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.
