The Yellow Woodpecker (YWG Collection #3) -

Monteiro Lobato

Indenpentently published

2019

193 páginas

6h 26m

ISBN-13: 9781797662558

This exclusive edition features:- Added footnotes- Annotations- Detailed biography.Finally the characters from all fables and children’s tales escape their old stories to go and live at ‘New Lands’ - a fantastic world built on a few acres of farms that Dona Benta buys from her neighbours. Castles, coaches, bridges, mountains and even a whole sea complete with monsters, mermaids and a pirate ship get transported into the new ‘home’. But under one condition: The good old peaceful Yellow Woodpecker Grange is separated from New Lands by a fence which the new dwellers must not trespass. Can they keep to their promise? And can the yellowwoodpeckers not navigate their way into the fantastic world of New Lands? Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Captain Hook and his pirates, Bellerophon the Greek hero with Pegasus the winged horse and the three-headed monster Chimera are a few of the characters that move into Dona Benta’s house while she, Aunt Nastacia, Retroussy, Pete, Emily and Viscount sail through the many exotic vicinities of New Lands and its troubles in a journey that ends right at the fairytale wedding of the year and the frightening invasion of gatecrashing monsters! In ‘The Fairies’, bonus short story also by Monteiro Lobato, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs offer at the front yard of Yellow Woodpecker Grange a lavishing banquet for many invitees. The guest of honour is Puss in Boots, the very responsible for the messy end of the party. MONTEIRO LOBATO (São Paulo, Brazil, 18 April 1882 - 04 July 1948) was South America’s pioneer in the genre Children’s Literature as well as the founder of the first publishing house in the continent. Notably, he translated from the English and self-published Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and JM Barrie’s Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. His fantasy books featuring the YELLOW WOODPECKER GRANGE characters have been adapted to cinema, TV series, comic books, theatre, music and TV cartoons across the decades. Monteiro Lobato has influenced many generations of writers and his characters are still the most recognisable in national culture.