by Dick King-Smith · EDICIONES SM · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467518061
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«El caballo de agua» is the children's fantasy novel by Dick King-Smith, published by Ediciones SM in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
Kirstie and her brother Angus find a strange egg on the beach after a storm. When it hatches, their grandfather Gruñón identifies it as a kelpie, a water horse that grows without stopping. The family looks for a place where it can live and the adventure takes it to a great lake.
The book belongs to the Libros del verano collection, features a translation by Xohana Bastida and illustrations by Marcelo Pérez, and explains the origin of the legend of the Loch Ness monster.
For young readers aged 9 and up who enjoy stories of fantastic animals, friendship and legends.
Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was an English writer of children's books. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983), which was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages. He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education degree by the University of the West of England in 1999 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
