1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before Growing Up

The Spanish version of Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, which lists some of the best children's and juvenile literature of all time, has just been published.

The volume has been translated into Spanish and published by Grijalbo:

1001 libros infantiles que hay que leer antes de crecer (1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up)
Editor: Julia Eccleshare.
Prologue and illustrations: Quentin Blake.
Translated by: Ferran Alaminos, Estrella Borrego, Ana Guelbenzu, Fernando Emilio Nápoles and Israel Ortega.
Publisher: Grijalbo Ilustrados. Barcelona, 2010.
Pages: 960.
Price: 35 euros.

The volume compiles works of literature from all over the globe, from the classic to the modern. The list includes popular stories from China, stories from 200 years before the birth of Christ, stories from unknown authors and classics such as Pinocchio, Treasure Island, The Three Little Pigs, and the latest contemporary works of fiction.

The volume also features literature from authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roald Dahl, Isabel Allende, Italo Calvino, Louisa May Alcott, C.S. Lewis, Astrid Lindgren, Ray Bradbury, Luis Sepulveda and Gustavo Martin Garzo. It also contains the novella Memoirs of a Basque Cow by Bernardo Atxaga, which was originally written in Basque (Behi euskaldun baten memoriak).

This detailed volume draws on experts in children's and juvenile literature from every country and has many pictures and illustrations, many of them done by the authors themselves, as in the case of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Little Prince, Astrid Lindgren and Pippi Longstocking and Catalan author Roser Capdevila and her famous triplets.

The latest issue of the Spanish books magazine Babelia has an article about the volume, with excerpts of interviews with some of the selected authors, including Atxaga.

Behi euskaldun baten memoriak (Pamiela, 1991)

Behi euskaldun baten memoriak (Memoirs of a Basque Cow), published in 1991 by Pamiela, is a novella for young adults. IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) selected it for inclusion on its honor list in 1994. The book was also recommended in Germany in November and December 1995 by the German international broadcasting company Deutsche Welle and Focus Magazine.

The book has been translated into dozens of languages --Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Albanian, Arabic, Dutch, Catalan, etc.

Here are some of the book covers, and more can be seen in our photo gallery.