The title character of J.K. Rowling’s 2022 children’s book The Christmas Pig is a pig.
The story follows Jack, a young boy whose favorite toy, Dur Pig, is lost on Christmas Eve. A replacement toy, the Christmas Pig, helps Jack enter a magical world in search of the missing toy. The book explores friendship, loss, courage, and the emotional importance children can attach to treasured objects.
The Christmas Pig was published in October 2021, not 2022, by Hachette Children’s Group in the United Kingdom and Scholastic in the United States. It was Rowling’s first children’s book after the Harry Potter series that was not part of the Wizarding World.
The animal in the title is a toy pig, while Dur Pig is the lost favorite toy. That distinction matters because both are central to the story but have different roles.