{"product_id":"the-child-and-the-river","title":"The Child and the River","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new translation of an evocative, \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e–esque French bestseller about a young farmboy, the river where he is forbidden to play, and the adventures that ensue when he disobeys his family’s wishes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Child and the River\u003c\/i\u003e tells a simple but haunting tale.  Pascalet, a boy growing up on a farm in the south of France, is  permitted by his parents to play wherever he likes—only never by the  river. Prohibition turns into temptation: Pascalet dreams of nothing so  much as heading down to the river, and one day, with his parents away,  he does. Wandering along the bank, intoxicated with newfound freedom, he  falls asleep in a rowboat and wakes to find himself caught in rapids  and run aground on an island where a band of Gypsies has pitched camp  together with their trained bear. Hiding in the underbrush, Pascalet  observes that the group includes a boy his age, who, after receiving a  whipping, has been left tied to a post. This is Gatzo, and as soon as  night falls, Pascalet sets him loose. The boys escape in a boat and  spend an idyllic week on the river. But then the mysterious “puppeteer  of souls” arrives, bringing their adventure to an end, and Pascalet must  go back home to face the music. Has he seen the last of his new friend?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong hailed as a sort of French \u003ci\u003eHuckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Child and the River\u003c\/i\u003e is, as Henri Bosco himself once wrote in a letter to a friend, “a novel  very good, I think, for children, adolescents, and poets.” A beguiling  adventure story, it is also beautifully written, full of keenly observed  details of the river’s wilds, well captured by Joyce Zonana’s new  translation.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50951800029472,"sku":"9781681377421","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781681377421.jpg?v=1763647820","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/the-child-and-the-river","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}