by Joan Aiken · Kokinos · tapa dura · ISBN 9788488342522
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«El pequeño dragón» is a children's story by Joan Aiken, illustrated by Bee Willey, published by Kokinos in 2004 in hardcover (33 pages, in Spanish).
Brisa misses her brother Leo, who has gone off to work as a sailor. Before leaving, Leo carves her a wooden dragon to keep her company. With the little dragon, Brisa will have adventures and discover that the affection between siblings remains present despite the distance.
Original title: The Wooden Dragon. Spanish translation by Esther Rubio.
Story for early readers, aimed at children aged 6 to 8, about the bond between siblings.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
