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The Christmas Pig Hardcover – October 12, 2021

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A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child's love for his most treasured thing, and how far he will go to find it. A tale for the whole family to fall in love with, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers.

One boy and his toy are about to change everything...

Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens -- DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life... even toys. And Jack’s newest toy -- the Christmas Pig (DP’s replacement) -- has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend Jack has ever known...

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J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular Harry Potter books. After the idea for Harry Potter came to her on a delayed train journey in 1990, she plotted out and started writing the series of seven books and the first was published as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the UK in 1997. The series took another ten years to complete, concluding in 2007 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

To accompany the series, J.K. Rowling wrote three short companion volumes for charity, Quidditch Through the Agesand Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. She also collaborated on the writing of a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was published as a script book.

Her other books for children include the fairy tale The Ickabog and The Christmas Pig, which were published in 2020 and 2021 respectively and have also been bestsellers. She is also the author of books for adults, including a bestselling crime fiction series.

J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing. She also supports a number of causes through her charitable trust Volant and is the founder of the children’s charity Lumos.

To find out more about J.K. Rowling visit jkrowlingstories.com.

Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer, and animation director. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books.

His first picture book, Cats Ahoy!, won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. Since then he has illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Frog on a Log? and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit & Bear, middle-grade novels by David Baddiel, and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe On Vacation, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, UK, worked in London, and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Inc.; First Edition (October 12, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1338790234
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1338790238
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7+ years, from customers
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 850L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 6
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #33 in Children's Fantasy & Magic Books
- #76 in Children's Christmas Books (Books)
- #83 in Children's Friendship Books

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Jim Field
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Jim Field is an illustrator, character designer and animation director.
From music videos and title sequences to illustration and picture books, Jim has worked on a variety of projects.
Jim has won multiple awards for the children's books he has illustrated; including the Lollies, The Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Evening Standards Oscars Prize and The Sainsbury's Award.
He was the 5th bestselling children's book illustrator of 2018.
Jim has illustrated children's books with Kes Gray, Rachel Bright, Julian Gough, Michelle Robinson, Michael Broad, Jeanne Willis, Steve Cole, comedian David Baddiel and Sir Michael Morpurgo.
Jim now lives in Paris with his wife, daughter and a small grumpy cat.
Awards
Oi Frog! written by Kes Gray and published by Hodder Children's Books
Winner of the Bishops Stortford Picture book Award
Nominated for the Kate Greenway 2015
Shortlisted for Peter's Picture book of the year 2015
Winner Portsmouth Children's book Award 2016
Nielsen Silver Award 2019
Oi Dog! written by Kes & Claire Gray and published by Hodder children's Books
WINNER OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION 4-7 FICTION PICTURE BOOK AWARD 2017
WINNER OF THE FCBG YOUNGER CHILDREN'S CATEGORY 2017
WINNER OF THE LOLLIES PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2017
The Lion Inside written by Rachel Bright and published by Orchard Books
WINNER OF THE UKLA BOOK AWARD 2017
Shortlisted for The Evening Standard Oscar's Book Prize 2016
Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Prize 2017
The Koala Who Could written by Rachel Bright and published by Orchard Books
Winner of Evening Standard Oscars award 2017
The Parent Agency written by David Baddiel and published by HarperCollins
Winner of the Lollies 2016 Children's 9 - 12 yr old category
There's a Lion in My Cornflakes written by Michelle Robinson and published by Bloomsbury
Winner of the first Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2014
Cats Ahoy! written by Peter Bently and published by Macmillan
Winner of The Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011
Nominated for the Kate Greenaway 2012
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J.K. Rowling
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J.K. Rowling is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter book series, as well as several stand-alone novels for adults and children, and a bestselling crime fiction series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
The Harry Potter books have now sold over 600 million copies worldwide, been translated into 85 languages and made into eight blockbuster films. They continue to be discovered and loved by new generations of readers.
Alongside the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of her international children’s charity, Lumos. The companion books and original series are all available as audiobooks.
In 2016, J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London, and is now thrilling audiences on four continents. The script book was published to mark the plays opening in 2016 and instantly topped the bestseller lists.
In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Inspired by the original companion volume, it was the first in a series of new adventures featuring wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander. The second, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018 and the third, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released in 2022.
The screenplays were published to coincide with each film’s release: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - The Original Screenplay (2016), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - The Complete Screenplay (2022).
Fans of Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter can find out more at www.wizardingworld.com.
J.K. Rowling’s fairy tale for younger children, The Ickabog, was serialised for free online for children during the Covid-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 and is now published as a book illustrated by children, with her royalties going to her charitable trust, Volant, to benefit charities helping alleviate social deprivation and assist vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.
Her latest children’s novel The Christmas Pig, published in 2021, is a standalone adventure story about a boy’s love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it.
J.K. Rowling also writes novels for adults. The Casual Vacancy was published in 2012 and adapted for television in 2015. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, she is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Strike’ crime series, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The first of these, The Cuckoo’s Calling, was published to critical acclaim in 2013, at first without its author’s true identity being known. The Silkworm followed in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022. The series has also been adapted for television by the BBC and HBO.
J.K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard Commencement speech was published in 2015 as an illustrated book, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, sold in aid of Lumos and university-wide financial aid at Harvard.
As well as receiving an OBE and Companion of Honour for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling has received many other awards and honours, including France’s Legion d’Honneur, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award and Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Award.
J.K. Rowling supports a number of causes through her charitable trust, Volant. She is also the founder and president of Lumos, an international children’s charity fighting for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world.
www.jkrowling.com
Image: Photography Debra Hurford Brown © J.K. Rowling
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Customers find the story engaging and fun. They describe the book as a quick, well-written read on an easy reading level suitable for younger readers. However, opinions differ on its suitability for young children, with some finding it appropriate and others considering it inappropriate.

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103 customers mention "Story quality"98 positive5 negative

Customers enjoy the story's quality. They find it cute, joyful, and redemptive. The book is described as an engaging, fun, emotional read with a good premise. While it seems lighthearted at first, the story has depth and thought-provoking themes regarding hope, love, and handling change.

"...This book is perfect for Christmas time really demonstrating the love that this season is about. Enjoy your read." Read more

"...It was fun for me to read so bought for great granddaughters!..." Read more

"This book was perfect to read with my 8 yr old. It’s so imaginative and takes you away into another world, while you can still relate it to real..." Read more

"...reviewers caution the age of readers for this book, I found it a heartwarming story of one kid’s love for his stuffed animal and an imaginative..." Read more

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Customers enjoy the book's readability. They find the story engaging and well-written. The book is a quick, easy read with short chapters that appeal to younger audiences. Readers praise the author's writing style and say it's the best read aloud they've ever done.

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Customers have differing views on the book's age range. Some find it suitable for all ages, with great lessons and humorous moments. It has a message for children who tend to reject toys that aren't exactly what they want. However, others feel it's not appropriate for young kids, not sensitive youngsters, and too much vocabulary for them to enjoy.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2024

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This book was so well written it was like watching a movie while reading it. This book is perfect for Christmas time really demonstrating the love that this season is about. Enjoy your read.

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JKRowley is a clear and concise story teller

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2024

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I am a grandma and great grandma but I loved this well thought out children’s book! It was fun for me to read so bought for great granddaughters! How she imagined all of the ‘things’ and their conversations and their experiences and made them work into a suspenful story beats me! My dgreats are ages 8 through 17! I enjoyed it so they should! I’m a kid at heart—I read to see how she was at writing a kids book!

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A wonderful story

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024

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This book was perfect to read with my 8 yr old. It’s so imaginative and takes you away into another world, while you can still relate it to real life and human emotion. Life can be so hard but there is so much good to be found in it. Any child or grown up could enjoy this book, although the content was beyond what my four year old could comprehend. As an adult that loved books as a child, it was so special to read this with my daughter. 10/10 this book was excellent!

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Love This Book!! A MUST BUY!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023

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Seen this book in our local Krogers grocery store. Read the inside cover and thought WOW! I should buy this to read to my 2 daughters. Only thing is, I didn't have my wallet with me and so at $28, I didn't have enough cash extra after buying groceries... needless to say, I was here on Amazon shopping for a few items that night and ran across this book again! This time, it was only $15!! I ordered it right away. Every night before bedtime, I read a few chapters to my daughters and we all love it! Arrived in superb condition (as it is a brand new, hardcover book). Cover is nice, actual book (hardback covers) is nicely done and easy to read/understand for my girls (we take turns every now and then reading a paragraph here and there). I have been a fan, of sorts, of J.K Rowling since the Harry Potter series. Lol! Definitely a MUST BUY... especially for Christmas.

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Great story with cautious themes

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While many reviewers caution the age of readers for this book, I found it a heartwarming story of one kid’s love for his stuffed animal and an imaginative world where they can be together. Yes, there is mention of divorce and there are scenes of anger, but welcome to the real world. I read it with my 7-year old and it gave us a good avenue to touch on some subjects kids (and adults) have to deal with in the real world. There were times we could not put it down and my daughter wanted me to read one more chapter. There are scenes of temper tantrums, heartbreak, and anger, but also of love, caring, sacrifice, and trust. It is definitely for older children and a good book to read together with those between 7-9.

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Andrew H.

There's more to the story than the first few chapters. Keep Reading.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2022

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J.K. Rowling brought me to the story, the story and message kept me reading.

I have read the first two Harry Potter books with my 6 and 4 year old, and we decided to take a little break from HP and read the Christmas Pig since it just came out and it was the Holiday Season. I will say, the first few chapters were a little intense for my 6 and 4 year old, and I did, throughout the story, make a few minor adjustments to word selection to make it a tad more appropriate for the vocabulary I want my children using. However, once we got passed those first few chapters, the story blossomed in to a journey through our emotions. My four year old was brought to tears in a few parts of the story both from sadness and happiness. They both had questions and theories about what was going to happen. They were engaged the entire book and always wanted me to keep reading.

I can understand and see some of the points others have made in low review scores, but I'm so glad I read on after the first few chapters. I would rather those topics come up while my wife and I are reading a story to them so they can ask questions in a safe environment rather than learn it elsewhere. Each of those "bad" moments in the story can be turned in to a great learning moment where you can explain to them why someone did what they did and how they could have possibly responded differently. I would suggest to keep reading if your on these sites trying to decide what to do. However, you know your kids best and what they can and can't handle.

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Haley

The BEST!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2023

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Wow. It’s the first thing that comes to mind. JK has done it again. I’m an avid Harry Potter fan, so I knew I had to read this (even if it is branded a children’s book). It was magnificent. So thought out and intricate and detailed. There are some semi-difficult parts in the beginning that may not be suitable for very small children and several aspects of the book that are very mature and may go over their heads; I would say this book is best suited for those 10+. I was captivated by this book the entire time and cried at the end. It’s so beautiful!

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Denese S. Wong

I'll make it one of my Christmas traditions

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2021

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I will admit I was a bit hesitant to buy and read 'The Christmas Pig' because I am an avid Harry Potter fan and found it hard to believe I could enjoy a book by J.K. Rowling that didn't involve witches, wizards, and wands. I decided to give C.P. a try, though, and I'm so glad I did! It is an engrossing, enchanting, and meaningful story that I will now make part of my Christmas tradition every year. Also, I feel pretty safe in saying that C.P. is appropriate for younger children. There IS a scary bad-guy, but every story needs one of those. I don't think there's anything in C.P. that younger kids would find overly traumatic. (As much as I love the Potter books--I've read the series about twenty times!---there are certain scenes in some of those books that are just too upsetting for young children to be exposed to.) On the other end of the scale, I think that even though Christmas Pig is definitely a children's book, many adults will enjoy it as well. After all, I enjoyed it, and I'm 69 years old. ;-)

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Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2024

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Genre: Fantasy/Christmas/Childrens

Review: This book, quite literally, tore me apart. I couldn't put it down so I ended up binge reading the entire thing when I should have been sleeping. No regrets, absolutely none. The story does get quite heavy at times, as the main character deals with his parents' divorce, bullying, and loss, but it feels so real and you just know that Jack has to pull through and succeed because your heart is relying on that being the case. There are definitely darker moments that may frighten some children, but that's pretty true of any great children's book. You can only coddle your kids to a certain point - reality rises up to face everyone some day.

The Land of the Lost was a great new introduction by J. K. Rowling. I like the idea of lost things and feelings going somewhere, either to be found again or forever cherished in memory. The reality that some things may never be found or remembered was personified in The Loser, who consumes the forgotten things that weren't cared for by their owners, making them disappear entirely from the land of the living. The idea of animism has always been special to me, and I definitely see a level of that in this book.

The book does have a HEA, but it's not the one you initially root for going into the adventure. It was, however, executed really well. I cried, reflected on how unfair life can be at times, and then came to terms with how things had to be - much, I expect, the way Jack did. Yes, I did just compare myself to a 7 year-old boy. I was happy with the conclusion of the book.

Oh, and I definitely recommend it.

“I may not shine as brightly as my friend Happiness, but my flame is harder to extinguish.” - Hope

(An aside here, for anyone who may have read this book/will read this book and also loves the idea of forgotten things living on - Forgotton Anne on Steam also deals with lost items in the Forgotten Lands, and is one of my favourite games).

Abigail Wood

Love it!

Reviewed in Mexico on February 12, 2022

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So far so good!

Fernando Ferreira

Livro lindo!

Reviewed in Brazil on October 29, 2021

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Além de bonito, é um livro que faz a gente voltar no tempo. Aos adultos na leitura, podemos ver a importância de um brinquedo de nossa infância e como era bom que nossa diversão do dia se resumia apenas a ele, no passado. Muito bom!