by Gerald Durrell · Sushi Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416884087
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In 'The Talking Package', Simon and Peter are on vacation in Greece, visiting their cousin Penelope. During an excursion to the beach, they discover a mysterious package from which voices emanate. Upon opening it, they find a furnished cage inhabited by a parrot and a spider, both from Mythology, a country ruled by talking books and Papagayo, the guardian of words. The three young people embark on an adventure to save Mythology from the evil power of the Basilisks. A book full of imagination and intelligence, with agile reading, with which we can have fun and learn about mythological characters.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
