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He visto un pájaro carpintero
Ala Bankroft, Michał Skibiński, 2020

€19.50

He visto un pájaro carpintero
Ala Bankroft, Michał Skibiński, 2020

€19.50

The publisher says:

It is the summer of 1939 in Warsaw, Poland and Michal is an eight- year-old boy just finishing his school year. In order to improve his handwriting, Michal’s teacher gives him a simple assignment: keep a journal, writing one sentence a day. Eighty years later, Michal’s diary has been gorgeously illustrated with beautifully atmospheric paintings.

Eloquent in its simplicity, the journal is a remarkable artifact that captures the innocence of childhood and the trauma of war.

These haunting entries are interspersed with visits from relatives, a soccer game, a trip to a park, an ice cream cone. Photographs of pages from Michal’s diary enhance the poignancy of this simple record—an ordinary holiday interrupted by war; a life changed forever by an extraordinary moment in history.

Fulgencio Pimentel, 2020, Spanish, 136 Pages, 19x26 cm, ISBN 9788417617295