by Joan Aiken · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420436654
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«El cuento de la calle de una sola dirección y otras historias» is the collection of fantastic tales by Joan Aiken, published by Alfaguara in paperback.
The tales transport readers to unusual territories where the impossible happens as in dreams: walking up a street in the forbidden direction leads to encountering strange creatures, a birthday cake baked with a magic spoon tangles up the gifts, and saving the king of the grasshoppers from drowning in soup brings wonderful rewards.
It is number 134 in the Juvenil Alfaguara collection; 120 pages, with illustrations by Jan Pienkowski and translation by Bárbara McShane and Javier Alfaya.
Aimed at child and young adult readers, especially fans of fantastic tales.
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.
