by Michael Morpurgo · Piemme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788856660555
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«Quando le volpi vinsero il campionato» is Michael Morpurgo's children's novel, published by Piemme in paperback (96 pages, in Italian).
A family of soccer-loving foxes lives under a shed, but their favorite team keeps losing. Everything changes when the father fox finds the ghost of a king buried under a parking lot, who offers to grant his greatest wish in exchange for being freed. The story is inspired by the real feat of Leicester City.
Part of the Il battello a vapore collection, blue series, in a high-readability edition. With illustrations by Michael Foreman.
Recommended for readers aged 7 and up, especially for those seeking accessible reading or with reading difficulties.
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.
