Designed to introduce today's youth to the winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature and to introduce a classic known to most children in the Spanish-speaking world, this intriguing volume captures the essence of a place and time: Moguer, an Andalusian village in the South of Spain, in 1914. Readers are invited to consider the universals within a man's specific musings as he travels by donkey, enjoying the festivals and people of the countryside and yet understanding their poverty and loss. Nineteen one-page passages from Jiménez' longer work of 138 chapters appear in side-by-side Spanish and English translations. The excerpts are illustrated with superb full-color images created in woodcuts and mixed media by Uruguayan-born Antonio Frasconi. (Ages 9-12)

Presents a picture of life in the town of Moguer, in Andalusia, Spain, as seen through the eyes of a wandering poet and his faithful donkey.