by Gerald Durrell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434585829
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«El paquete parlante» is Gerald Durrell's children's novel, published by Salvat Alfaguara in paperback (230 pages, in Spanish).
Simon and Peter spend their vacations in Greece and find a floating parcel from which voices emerge. Inside live Dulcimila, a spider, and Loro, a talking parrot. Both come from Mythology, an imaginary country dominated by the Basilisks, and ask the children for help to free it. The mission leads the group to a series of fantastic adventures through mythological landscapes.
Second title in the Biblioteca Juvenil collection, with translation by María Luisa Balseiro and illustrations by Alicia Sancha. Original title: The Talking Parcel.
For young readers and for those seeking a classic children's tale of fantastic adventures with animals.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
