by Erich Kästner · Santillana Educación, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420464848
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«La conferencia de los animales» is a children's fable by Erich Kästner, published by Santillana Educación in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
After two world wars and the failure of human peace conferences, the animals, led by the lion Alois, hold their own assembly to achieve the peace that rulers cannot. The story combines humor and satire in a plea for dialogue, reason and peace.
The original German title, «Die Konferenz der Tiere», was first published in 1949. This paperback edition is from 2002.
Recommended for child and young adult readers, it is commonly used as school reading.
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
