About the Book

Official World Book Day £1 book

From Michael Morpurgo, co-founder of the charity Farms for City Children, this charming story for early readers evokes the wonder, muck and magic of a week on the farm. The first of many Farm Tales to come, it is a window onto the countryside, and the way its landscape and animals can leave an impression on a child’s heart forever.

‘You’re farmers for a week, so you’ll be busy. There’ll be no time to miss home. You’ll eat like kings and queens, sleep like logs, and you’ll hardly be out of your wellies, except in bed.’
 
When a young boy goes from the city to stay on the farm, he discovers a world he never knew existed – a world of vegetable gardens, ducks and geese, where the sheep graze in the fields, where apples and pears grow in the orchard.
 
He also meets Jemima the pig: she smells and she slobbers, she breaks out of her pen to steal potatoes, and she’s the undisputed queen of the farm. Soon, he’s hiding acorns in his pockets to feed to her every time he sees her. But then, Jemima starts to feel ill. Could she have eaten too many acorns? Or does this queen of a pig have a secret…?

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780008533229
• ISBN 10: 0008533229
• Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• On Sale: 02/17/2022
• Pages: 96
• List Price:2.99 CAD
• Ages: 5 to 8
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Farm Animals
• BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Pigs
• BISAC3 : NATURE / Animal Rights
• BISAC4 : JUVENILE FICTION / Lifestyles / Country Life
• BISAC5 : JUVENILE FICTION / Recycling & Green Living

Michael Morpurgo

Biography

Michael Morpurgo is one of the most successful children's authors in the country, loved by children, teachers and parents alike. He has written more than forty books for children, including the global hit <i>War Horse</i>, which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011.

He has won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature.

Other Works by Michael Morpurgo

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  Cobweb

  By Michael Morpurgo

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  Carnival of the Animals: A Whole New World of Animal Poems

  By Michael Morpurgo

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  Billy the Kid

  By Michael Morpurgo

Other Works by Guy Parker-Rees

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  Katerina the Cat and Other Tales from the Farm (A Farms for City Children Book)

  By Guy Parker-Rees

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  Barney the Horse and Other Tales from the Farm (A Farms for City Children Book)

  By Guy Parker-Rees

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  Jemima the Pig and the 127 Acorns

  By Guy Parker-Rees