by Paula Fox · Noguer Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427934504
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«Gus cara de piedra» is the children's and young adult novel by Paula Fox published by Noguer Ediciones in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
Gus, called Stone Face for his impassivity, lives in a house among apple trees. His sister Serena finds a black dog that runs away during a snowstorm and may have fallen into a wolf trap. Gus's nighttime adventure to rescue it deals with solidarity and love for animals.
It is the third edition, from the Noguer histórico collection (number 1), with illustrations by Donald A. Mackay. Original title: «The Stone-Faced Boy» (1968).
For young readers aged 10 and up who enjoy realistic and moving stories featuring children.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
