Britain's JK Rowling, author of The Adventures of Harry Potter, which sells half a billion copies worldwide, released a new children's book on Tuesday,
Jack and the Great Christmas Pig Adventure,
inspired by her son.
The idea for this book came to her from a stuffed pig she gave to her son David when he was a baby and which quickly became her favorite stuffed animal.
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To avoid a tearful fit in case the beloved plush is lost, JK Rowling bought a second identical copy of the blanket, which his son once found.
“One day I thought about this, what it means to be the stand-in, the understudy - the one who isn't the Chosen one in a way.
And I realized I finally had my Christmas story
,
”
the 55-year-old novelist told
The Sunday Times
.
Published by Hachette Children's Group in its original version under the name
The Christmas Pig
, the book is released in more than twenty languages.
The return of
"magic"
Like the seven books of the Adventures of the Harry Potter Sorcerer's Apprentice, published between 1997 and 2007, this new children's novel talks about
"hidden world"
and
"magic"
but they are
"totally different"
, explained JK Rowling. Also in
The Sunday Times
, the novelist also tells that if she started writing at the age of six, she did not start writing a children's book (
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
) until the age of 25.
“The idea of writing for children had never occurred to me before, not because I thought it was less important than writing for adults - as a child I was a voracious reader and still count. some of my favorite children's books - but because my childhood was not very happy, ”
she explained.
After the Harry Potter saga, JK Rowling wrote adult novels before returning to children's literature with
The Ickabog
, a tale published last year.
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The novelist's enormous popularity has recently been tarnished by accusations of transphobia.
Last year JK Rowling shared an article on Twitter about
"menstruating people"
, commenting sarcastically:
"I'm sure we had to have a word for these people.
Someone help me.
Feum?
Famme?
Feemm? "
.
She has thus drawn the wrath of certain Internet users, who reminded her that transgender men can have their period and transgender women cannot.
The book comes out Tuesday, October 12 Gallimard
