by Ole Lund Kirkegaard · SUSHI BOOKS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788415920571
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«O pequeno Virgil» is a children's fiction book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, published by Sushi Books in hardback (112 pages, in Galician).
Virgil, the protagonist, lives in a henhouse in a small town with a one-legged rooster that wakes him every morning. With his friends Oskar and Carl Emil, he faces a solitary stork, discovers a hidden treasure on Carl Emil's birthday, and meets an eight-legged dragon.
Work originally published in Danish as «Lille Virgil» in 1967; the Galician translation is by Moisés Barcia Rodríguez, with illustrations by Kirkegaard himself.
Recommended for readers aged 8 and up and for those seeking humour and adventure in Nordic children's literature.
Ole Lund Kirkegaard was a Danish writer of children's and youth literature, as well as a teacher. He mainly wrote about the interactions between adults and children. The main character in his books is usually an anti-hero. In 1969, he was awarded with the Danish Ministry of Culture's children book prize
