Xelís, o guieiro das botellas de mar

Synopsis of Xelís, o guieiro das botellas de mar

«Xelís, o guieiro das botellas de mar» is the children's science fiction novel by Rosa Aneiros, published by Edicións Xerais in paperback (184 pages, in Galician).

Xelís finds a message in a bottle at Punta de Bruaboi and discovers that a huge island of plastics threatens the inhabitants of Otilc. Faced with the passivity of the guieiros da natureza, he embarks on a journey on the back of the gannet Mult to the Arctic Circle, where he meets Ilva and grandfather Jónas, owners of an extraordinary light factory. With their help, he will try to stop the ecological catastrophe looming over the planet.

The work, illustrated by Andrés Meixide, belongs to the Merlín collection of Edicións Xerais, aimed at readers from 11 years old, and is published in Galician. It was recognized with the Merlín Prize for Children's Literature 2019.