by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rosa Navarro Durán · edebé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423686278
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«Platero y yo contado a los niños» is the children's adaptation of Juan Ramón Jiménez by Rosa Navarro Durán, published by edebé in paperback (192 pages).
Rosa Navarro Durán adapts Juan Ramón Jiménez's poetic prose into brief vignettes showing life in Moguer through the poet and his donkey Platero. The walk through the town, the countryside and its people forms a tale of friendship, nature and sensitivity to the everyday in rural Andalusia.
It belongs to the Clásicos contados a los niños collection and includes illustrations by Francesc Rovira. The original work was published in 1914 and its author received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
Recommended for children aged 6 and up, also as classroom reading or for school libraries.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the concept of "pure poetry".
