by Kevin Henkes · Editorial Everest · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788444143828
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«Palabras de Piedra» is the children's and young adult novel by Kevin Henkes, published by Editorial Everest in paperback (156 pages, in Spanish).
Blaze spends the summer in the countryside with his father and grandmother, lonely and attached to the hill where he usually takes refuge among the trees. When a message written with stones appears on the slope, his routine fills with mystery. Meeting Joselle will change his summer and lead to an unexpected friendship.
It belongs to the Leer es vivir collection, with illustrations by Ángel Esteban Lozano and translation by Alejandro Fernández Susial. The work was originally published as Words of Stone.
Reading for young readers aged 10 and up attracted by mystery and friendship in a rural setting.
Kevin Henkes is an American author of children's books. He is known for writing and illustrating picture books, the most notable of which feature young anthropomorphic mice as their main characters. Henkes also writes middle-grade fiction. As an illustrator, he won the Caldecott Medal for Kitten's First Full Moon (2004). Two of Henkes's books were Newbery Medal Honor Books, Olive's Ocean in 2004 and The Year of Billy Miller in 2014. His picture book Waiting was named both a 2016 Caldecott Honor Book and a Geisel Honor Book. It was only the second time any author has won that combination of awards.
