by Juan Ramón Jiménez · Edebe · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423680313
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«Platero y yo contado a los niños» is the children's adaptation of the classic by Juan Ramón Jiménez published by Edebe in hardback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Platero is a little donkey who accompanies the poet through the fields and streets of Moguer, a village in Andalusia. In brief scenes of rural life, the narrator evokes the beauty of the everyday, nature, animals and the local people, with tenderness and a poetic gaze, in a version designed to bring the classic closer to children.
Adaptation by Rosa Navarro Durán with illustrations by Francesc Rovira. Part of the Clásicos contados a los niños collection. The original work was published in 1914.
Recommended for children aged 6 and up, also as classroom reading or for school libraries.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".
