What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2021 children’s book about a boy and a magical pig?

The title of J.K. Rowling’s 2021 children’s book about a boy and a magical pig is The Christmas Pig.

The Christmas Pig was published in 2021 as a standalone children’s fantasy novel. It follows Jack, a young boy whose favorite toy, Dur Pig, is lost on Christmas Eve. A replacement toy called the Christmas Pig helps Jack enter a magical world in search of Dur Pig.

The story explores attachment, loss, memory, and the emotional importance children can give to objects. It is separate from Harry Potter and from Rowling’s earlier standalone novel The Ickabog.

The book was illustrated by Jim Field. Its Christmas setting is central to the plot, but the story is not a retelling of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Rowling wrote The Christmas Pig for children and families, using a journey through an imaginative realm to examine how love and memory shape the meaning of possessions.