White Ravens’99/Spain/78523
Echegaray, Marta (text)
 Castillo, Jorge (illus.)
 Inciértico o La rica historia del Sexto Océano
 (Inciértico or The wonderful tale of the Sixth Ocean)
 Madrid: Ed. Siruela, 1998. 91pp
 (Las tres edades ; 60)
 ISBN 84-7844-394-0
 Fantasy travel - Island - Alphabet - Language - Alice in Wonderland 
 Twelve-year old Marisol and her turtle Kikí reach the land of Inciértico by boat. This is a country
 consisting of 26 islands, each named after a letter in the alphabet, and is ruled by the slightly despotic King
 AyZee. With this monarch, who gladly shows her his whole kingdom, Marisol is able to conduct witty,
 sometimes absurd, sometimes sophisticated conversations. Consciously drawing parallels with Lewis
 Carroll’s »Alice in Wonderland,« this story follows in the tradition of classical nonsense literature in which
 wordplay and games involving logic are more central to the story than any plot. (12+)

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