The Adventures of Shola

Author: Atxaga, Bernardo

Color: Gold

Edition: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 220

Details: Product Description Small dog. Big dreams. From her rustic, mouse-mad cousin Angeliño to Señor Grogó's rodeo-chasing, wild Aunt Clementine from Wyoming, nobody in these four surprising stories can help agreeing with Shola in the end: leads are for losers and it's far better to be free. Shola is a dog who knows what's what and how best to say it, and she'll even say it live on tv. As long as nobody gets too discombobulated about it.Shola may look like an ordinary white pet dog but, as her long-suffering owner Señor Grogó knows only too well, she is in fact a highly cultivated creature and the world is her playground - or rather, her jungle. For little Shola is ever ready to discover her inner lioness or to lead the pack on a wild-boar hunt. If only home-made cheese and finely cooked, delicious, marvellous, near-miraculous chips were not quite so tempting, the world would recognise her for the heroic dog she truly is.Luckily Shola finds soul-mates in unexpected quarters. Lovingly and revealingly illustrated by Mikel Valverde, these four stories in one volume are a treasure-trove of amusement which cannot fail to cheer the reader. Review "Shola is a charming, short creature stuffed with charisma and fierce ideas, and so is the book about her." – Bookbag "Charming, funny and heart-warming stories, beautifully packaged and affectionately and cleverly illustrated." - Lancashire Evening Post "First Spot, then Snowy and now Shola - children's literature has an illustrious history of plucky S-name canines... Mikel Valverde's illustrations are, like the best of cartoon strips, wittily and expressively detailed." – Junior "The most clever and ridiculous dog you've ever heard of ... fantastic." – Guardian children’s books "Truly lovely illustrations and some wonderful wordplay-derived humour." - The Book Wars Review First Spot, then Snowy and now Shola - children's literature has an illustrious history of plucky S-name canines... Mikel Valverde's illustrations are, like the best of cartoon strips, wittily and expressively detailed. -- Fiona McKim, Junior About the Author Bernardo Atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, b. 1951) is an award-winning Basque writer, whose work spans adult and children's prose, poetry, radio, cinema and theatre, as well as short stories. He first achieved national and international fame with Obabakoak (1988), which won the National Literature Prize 1989 and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His novels have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad; most recently, Margaret Jull Costa's translation of Seven Houses in France was shortlisted for the 2012 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. One day, Señor Grogó had a visit from a friend who had been travelling round Africa and was longing to tell Grogó about everything he had seen there. Grogó’s friend talked a lot; he talked about the Sudan, about Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria, he talked about the Masai, the Batusi and the Zulus, and also about the chief of an Ethiopian tribe, whose name was Abebe-Aba-ba-Abebe. And after talking about all these things, he talked about the jungle ?and about lions. "The lion is a magnificent beast," said the friend. "He’s strong, powerful and noble. He’s the King of the Jungle. There’s no animal he can’t vanquish. He can strike a hunter dead with the last beat of his heart." Shola, who had been dozing in the arm- chair, pricked up her ears. What sort of beast was this lion, so like herself in so many ways? She too was strong, powerful and noble. Although she had never actually fought with anyone or seen a hunter, she was sure that they would all be afraid of her; she was sure that all animals and all hunters were aware— painfully aware—that she could strike them dead with the last beat of her heart. "So..." Shola wagged her tail doubtfully, "if I’m a lion, why does Grogó insist on calling me a mere mutt?" Shola was in the grip of these ter

EAN: 9781782690092

Release Date: 11-11-2014

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Hardcover Used - Like New Ships fast! 2014Illustrated

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

Binding: Hardcover