by Joan Aiken · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420443577
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«Cuentos del cuervo de Arabel» is a children's storybook by Joan Aiken, published by Alfaguara in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together stories featuring Arabel, a girl, and her raven, a most peculiar animal. The tales, full of humour and imagination, turn everyday situations into surprising and entertaining adventures.
Published on 1 July 2003 as part of Alfaguara's Próxima Parada collection. Translation by Barbara McShane.
Aimed at children and young readers, with humorous stories in which animals, children and imagination play a central role.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
