by Joan Aiken · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434818255
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«Vete a ensillar el mar» is the adventure novel by Joan Aiken, published by SM in paperback (211 pages, in Spanish).
In 1821, a twelve-year-old orphan living with his grandparents in Spain decides to flee to England, where his father was from, to find the family he does not know. The novel blends adventurous exploits with nineteenth-century customs and a sentimental tone rooted in Dickens, where friendship, duty and criticism of rigid education are central themes.
Vete a ensillar el mar opens the Felix Brooke series and is number 57 in the Gran Angular collection. Translation by Teodoro Larriba; original title: Go Saddle the Sea.
Recommended reading for young audiences and for those who enjoy adventure stories with a historical background.
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.
