by Sonya Hartnett, Joan Manuel Soldevilla Albertí · Editorial Vicens Vives · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788468200323
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«El burrito de plata» is the young adult novel by Sonya Hartnett, published by Vicens Vives in paperback, with 176 pages in Spanish.
During the First World War, sisters Cocó and Marcelle find in a Normandy forest a British officer who has lost his sight and is fleeing the front. To thank them for their help, Lieutenant Shepard tells them four moving stories related to an amulet he keeps jealously: a silver donkey. While the girls secretly try to get the officer back home, they discover values such as generosity, courage and loyalty.
Volume 50 of the Cucaña Collection, with illustrations by Laura Carlin and translation by Adolfo Muñoz García. Winner of the 2010 Andersen Prize and originally published in English as The Silver Donkey in 2004.
Aimed at primary school readers, especially ages 9 to 12, and at young people wanting an anti-war read with values.
Sonya Louise Hartnett is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, one of the largest cash prizes in children's literature.
