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Celebrating 85 years of Sparking Imaginations

A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Pig-Heart Boy. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector’s item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books, this edition has a brand-new foreword from Adam Kay.

All Cameron wants is a ‘normal’ life – friends, swimming, school, family.

But most normal thirteen-year-olds don’t desperately need a new heart because theirs doesn’t work properly.

One doctor offers hope. Cameron could – if he and his parents agree – take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig’s heart into his human body. It’s risky. And it’s never been done before . . .

While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much, much less accepting. But surely everyone will understand that it’s better to have a pig’s heart that works than a human heart that doesn’t – won’t they . . .?

Collect all eight titles in the Puffin Clothbound 85th Anniversary Collection

THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER by Jacqueline Wilson with a foreword by Beth Lincoln
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney with a foreword by Dapo Adeola
CHARLOTTE’S WEB by E.B. White with a foreword by Jordan Lees
MATILDA by Roald Dahl with a foreword by Robin Stevens
THE EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING LIFE OF LOTTIE BROOKS by Katie Kirby with a foreword by Nadia Shireen
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan with a foreword by Nazneen Ahmed Pathak
PIG-HEART BOY by Malorie Blackman with a foreword by Adam Kay
WONDER by R.J. Palacio with a foreword by Tom Fletcher

Publisher Review

A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue * Guardian *