Uruguay (Spanish)
173
Bavosi Ana Marķa (adapt.)
Cassinelli, Horacio (illus.)
Pedro Catorce (Pedro Fourteen <proper name>)
[Montevideo] : Bicho Feo Ed., 1996. – 23pp
ISBN 9974-625-01-7
Giant - Strength - Devil - Fairy tale
Pedro Fourteen is a hell of guy: he is as big and strong as fourteen men, he works like
fourteen men – but unfortunately he also eats like fourteen men. That's why the
villagers want to get rid of him and literally send the candid voracious eater to hell.
How Pedro fights a whole pack of nasty little devils, and why the devil is first put in a
sack and finally ends up in a cool grave on top of a high mountain, that's what this
peculiar fairy tale will tell you. The caricaturesque style of the energetic
line-drawings, partially washed with watercolours, perfectly suits the humorous text. (5+)