by Kenneth Grahame · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475969947
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«Sant Jordi i el drac gandul» is the children's story by Kenneth Grahame, published in 2003 by Editorial Empúries in paperback (80 pages, in Catalan).
The story starts from the legend of Sant Jordi but turns it around: the knight faces a dragon who doesn't want to fight, in love with life and poetry, and convinced that no one should be discriminated against for being different. The tale has captivated young and adult readers since it was first published.
Víctor Aldea Lorente signs the translation, with illustrations by E. H. Shepard; this second edition belongs to the Sense Limits collection. The original story, «The Reluctant Dragon», was published in 1898.
For children's and young adult readers who want to discover a kind and different version of the legend of Sant Jordi.
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted and he joined the Bank of England, where he had a successful career. Before writing The Wind in the Willows, he published three other books: Pagan Papers (1893), The Golden Age (1895), and Dream Days (1898).
