A Piglet Called Truffle
By (Author) Helen Peters
Illustrated by Ellie Snowdon
Nosy Crow Ltd
Nosy Crow Ltd
3rd January 2017
6th October 2016
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
823.92
Paperback
144
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
130g
Jasmine's dad is a farmer, and her mum is a large-animal vet, so Jasmine spends a lot of time caring for animals and keeping them out of trouble. Unfortunately, this often means she gets into hot water herself...
In this first in the series, Jasmine rescues a tiny piglet from certain death. But Jasmine's parents don't believe in farm animals being pets and insist that Truffle must be sold as soon as he's big enough. So Jasmine begins a campaign to keep him - one that doesn't seem to be going very well as Truffle gets older and ever-closer to market... In the end, it takes two lost guinea pigs and one cold, frosty, nighttime adventure to save Truffle's bacon...
Helen Peters grew up on an old-fashioned farm in Sussex, surrounded by family, animals and mud. She spent most of her childhood reading stories and putting on plays in a tumbledown shed that she and her friends turned into a theatre. After university, she became an English and Drama teacher. Helen lives with her husband and children in London, and she can hardly believe that she now gets to call herself a writer.