The Donkey Rustlers

by Gerald Durrell

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Two children vacationing on a Greek isle in the Ionian sea devise a plan where by stolen donkeys save the land of a friend from having the mortgage foreclosed.

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Great fun! I was surprised and delighted when I found this Gerald Durrell children's book that I had never heard of. I fun romp. A wild idea to save a friends farm.
English kids on holiday plot to save their friend's land
Un grupo de niños descubre que unos burros de la isla han sido robados y deciden emprender una investigación por su cuenta. La aventura los lleva a enfrentarse a pequeños peligros, malentendidos y situaciones cómicas, mientras ponen a prueba su ingenio y su sentido de la justicia. La historia combina elementos detectivescos con el característico humor de Durrell, siempre atento a la relación entre humanos y animales.

Durrell demuestra aquí su capacidad para escribir narrativa juvenil sin perder su estilo personal: diálogos vivos, personajes bien definidos y un trasfondo naturalista que nunca resulta moralizante. La traducción de Balseiro es fluida y natural, y las ilustraciones de Álvarez complementan adecuadamente la lectura. show more La serie «Juvenil Alfaguara» se caracteriza por su formato manejable y su orientación escolar, lo que hace de esta edición un ejemplar idóneo para bibliotecas infantiles y juveniles. La impresión es clara, la encuadernación resistente y el diseño interior funcional.

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Durrell combina humor, ritmo narrativo y un profundo afecto por los animales, lo que convierte esta novela juvenil en una lectura ágil y entrañable. La traducción de María Luisa Balseiro mantiene el tono vivaz del original, y las ilustraciones de Mabel Álvarez aportan un refuerzo visual adecuado al público juvenil. La edición de Alfaguara en la serie «Juvenil Alfaguara» es sólida, manejable y bien impresa. El ejemplar descrito está completo, en buen estado y con paginación íntegra. Como obra juvenil, cumple plenamente su función formativa y recreativa.
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Gerald Durrell was born on January 7, 1925 in Jamshedpur, India to British parents. After the death of his father in 1928, the family lived in England and Europe before settling in Corfu, where he spent much of his childhood. Educated by private tutors, he became interested in natural history and amassed a private collection of dozens of creatures show more from scorpions to owls. He went on numerous wildlife expeditions and founded the Jersey Zoological Park and the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust with the purpose of breeding endangered species. His first book, The Overloaded Ark, was published in 1953. He wrote 37 books during his lifetime including My Family and Other Animals, The Bafut Beagles, A Zoo in My Luggage, Rosy Is My Relative, and The Mockery Bird. He received the Order of the British Empire in 1982 and was featured in the United Nations' Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement in 1988. He died from complications related to a liver transplant on January 30, 1995 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Donkey Rustlers
Original title
The donkey rustlers
Original publication date
1968

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
DDC/MDS
823.9Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-
LCC
PZ7 .D9343 .DLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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