Well, in this path to 100, there have been and will be, still, short stories, not only novellas. Picture Books short stories and Novels. This time I like to talk about 4, lets say, short stories, which include: The Adventure of the Flying Chickens by Monica Brozon (La aventura de los pollos voladores), The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, The diary of a killer cat by Anne Fine, Kiwi by Carmen Posadas. This 4 stories are wonderful stories of animals that teach, indirectly, excellent values to children.
The Adventures of the Flying Chickens (La aventura de los pollos voladores).
by Monica Brozon, Illustrator Cecilia Renora, Publ. Progreso.
This is a story of friendship and teamwork. A short story for early readers that will be read in short time. Here a bird finds out that that the old man that threw to the floor bread crumbs so the birds could eat, worked at a chicken shop and that he has to kill and stuff all chickens for tomorrow party. But they are chicken and do not fly, so he went with his friends for help. And they helped him and in what a way. Do not know if there is an english version, but for those who know spanish, its a good read.
The Enormous Crocodile.
by Roald Dahl
I Think that there is a lot of material written about this excellent writer, for a lot of people he is like the father of the current "Children's Writing", he changed the traditional way it had to be told the stories. The Enormous Crocodile is, as the previous story, for early readers. A story that show us that bad deeds always go punished and that we could find friends every where, even when we are not looking for them. This is a very hungry croc, looking for a good bite, and he thinks that a child will do good, so he goes on an adventure to the city to find a kid and eat him. The original is in english, I read the spanish version, and parts of the english version, alway is better to read in its original language.
The diary of a killer cat.
by Anne Fine, Illustrations by Damián Ortega. Publish by FCE
This story as the previous one, is from an British writer, and the original is in english. But I think that this spanish version is a very good one. In this book there are learnings about the circle of life, as the cat does some trick to eat, but also we find that it is not good to hide things, and at the end the best way is to tell the truth. Day by day, the cat tells us his adventures in the human world. By all means! he has to eat, what is all the fuzz about?
Kiwi
by Carmen Posadas, Illustrations by Miguel Tanco, Publish by Ediciones SM
This story is written in spanish by an spanish writer, so for you out there who reads in spanish buy the book, is an excellent story of love, paternal love. At the farm arrives a box that allegedly was intended to other address. In that box there was an egg, the only one that wants to take care of it is the dog, after it breaks a Kiwi is born, but kiwis are ugly and nobody wants to look after him, again the dog tries to find a family for it. Nothing. So, after a possibility that the animal could be famous, everybody wants him. Fame is not everything in life. An excellent read with beautiful illustrations.
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