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Haltzaren muinoa

Language: 
Basque
Title in English: 
Alder hill
Author: 
Anjel Lertxundi Esnal
Illustrator: 
Antton Olariaga Aranburu
Place of publication: 
Donostia
Country: 
Spain
Publisher: 
Elkar
Year of publication: 
2020
Series: 
BATZUK
ISBN: 
978-84-9027-985-4
Size: 
215 x 105 cm.
Pages: 
120 p.
Illustrations: 
Black and white
Category: 
Novels

The protagonist of this adventure novel is a tree that lives on a hill by the river, a tree that wants to know the world. And, as we all know, the tree cannot move from where it is. The book is divided into 96 chapters of one page, and in the first parts we shall read what the tree thinks, how it feels, who walks around it.
The writer, with great skill, causes a flood and a stream of water knock down the tree which flows over the river. That´s when the real adventure of the alder begins.
This book won the 2021 Euskadi Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature.

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