by Fina Casalderrey · Edebe Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423640980
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«El estanque de los patos pobres» is the children's novel by Fina Casalderrey, published by Edebé Editorial in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
Noema learns many things from her grandfather, a wise man who is also a champion and a pirate. Among his games is that of dying: you just lie down, close your eyes, and place one hand on top of the other. That game leads to a story about the affection between grandfather and granddaughter, with life and death treated from a child's perspective.
The book was published in 1996, belongs to the Tucán Azul collection (no. 82), and was the winner of the Edebé Prize for Children's Literature.
For young readers who want to discover how a girl and her grandfather turn a game into a way of talking about death.
Fina Casalderrey is a Spanish writer and educator, considered to be one of the most important writers of Galician children's literature.
