by Guus Kuijer · Ediciones Castillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789702008569
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«El libro de todas las cosas» is the children's novel by Guus Kuijer published by Ediciones Castillo in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Tomás, a boy who sees beautiful and extraordinary things that others do not perceive, grows up in Amsterdam under the strict discipline of a religious father who mistreats his mother. He wants to defend her, but fear paralyzes him; only when his neighborhood shows him another way of understanding life does he discover that happiness begins when you stop being afraid.
Edition from the Castillo de la Lectura Roja collection, with illustrations by Luis Pombo. Original Dutch from 2004 («Het boek van alle dingen»), winner of the Gouden Griffel Prize in 2005.
A read for young people and adults interested in sensitive stories about family violence and the process of finding one's own worth.
Guus Kuijer is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the Madelief series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2012, the biggest prize in children's literature. As a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008.
