by Erich Kästner · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420432137
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«El 35 de mayo» is the children's novel by Erich Kästner, published by Alfaguara in paperback (123 pages, in Spanish).
Konrad is a boy who spends Thursdays with his uncle Riugelhuth, a character with a boundless imagination for whom the date 35 May is perfectly real. When he has to write an essay about the Pacific Ocean, his uncle takes him on a fantastic journey to the centre of that ocean, with adventures full of humour and surprises.
It belongs to the Alfaguara Juvenil collection (no. 24). It was originally published in German in 1932 under the title «Der fünfunddreißigste Mai oder Konrad reitet in die Südsee».
For young readers looking for fantastic adventures and humour, within classic children's and young adult literature.
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
