Julio Millares

Penteli is sad Julio Millares

In the story "Penteli is sad", the protagonist giraffe feels that she no longer wants to lead the life of traveling singer always on tour and gets sadder and sadder until her godmothers, sisters Clara and Selma help her out of it and Penteli recovers her joy. A funny story that shows the depth of children's feelings and their desire to protect animals. Julio Millares won the Vargas Llosa Prize for novels and the Imaginaria Prize for children's stories. He lived in Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico and Sweden before returning to his native Argentina. He is a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Cuyo.