The Three Hedgehogs

by Javier Sáez Castán

Three hedgehogs living in a little house on a farm are desperately hungry and decide to steal three apples from the orchard. This infuriates the farmers who set out on an expedition to arrest the thieves. But a witness has some surprising new proof that turns the criminals into heros.

Word play and visual puns abound in this witty and enchanting book by a brilliant young Spanish author and illustrator.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Nace en 1964 en Huesca, España. Desde pequeño escribía y dibujaba cuentos y, le gustó tanto hacerlo, que ahora se dedica a tiempo completo a crear historias. Es licenciado en bellas artes en la especialidad de dibujo, ha trabajado como ilustrador para la Universidad y el Ayuntamiento de Alicante, entre otras instituciones y empresas de publicidad. Sus libros le han merecido varios premios y han sido traducidos a muchos idiomas. Tiene tres hijos, ha publicado más de tres libros y ha plantado más de tres árboles.
Premio Nacional de Ilustración 2016.

Reviews

[Fancy Fatemeh · Rating 5 out of 5]

اینو جود لاو برای بچه‌ها خونده و چقدرم دلبر... قصه‌ش هم دلچسب بود. هیچی جذاب‌تر از خوندن ادبیات کودکان در ایام کووید-۱۹ نیست.

[Apple · Rating 4 out of 5]

These illustrations are marvelous! The story has a strange pace, possibly an effect of it being translated from another language, and it's terribly short, but I liked it. Would definitely read to a very young child.

[Karly Salguero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me encantó que está organizado como una obra de teatro, con actos, personajes, etc, y al final le explican a los niños lectores conceptos como colofón y pantomima, para entender mucho mejor la narración. Además los dibujos son preciosos y la historia es súper bonita. Lo amé.

[Jennifer Parker · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didnt like the story for this book, but did enjoy the different cultural phrases shared.

[Shivakukatla · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good story

[Fabiola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read by Jude Law for #SAVEWITHSTORIES. ♥

[Eduardo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I might just add this here since I just listened to it being read by -utterly handsome- Jude Law :)

[Merricat · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was absolutely precious. Hedgehogs are one of my favorite animals of all time and this was just so sweet and endearing. (I also recommend looking up Jude Law reading it out loud )

[Eun Sol]

Read by Jude Law, the best bedtime story reader so far.

[Tayler K · Rating 2 out of 5]

I saw this while I was weeding at the library and I love hedgehogs, so I had to stop and read it.

It was... interesting.
I got the feeling it was written more as an exercise than an actually written-for-children book. It's presented as 2 pantomimes and a colophon, yet a glossary at the end explains that neither of the terms are actually used in their typical definitions. The illustrations also incorporate a lot of foreign words from several languages, which makes for a very strange experience until you come to the end and find they are also included in the glossary.

But, points for hedgies.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked this up at the library...my son and I LOVED it. We got to the Glossary and kept going back to get more and more from the story. SO CUTE and VERY interesting for my soon to be six year old who is interested in foreign languages! The illistrations allow for a BIG story told in a pantomime in two acts and a colophon. Spanish is interesting to my son since kids in school speak Spanish. I took French so he was impressed that I knew ANYTHING besides English and we both liked the Latin references. Great, quick read which keeps us thinking long after the story has been told.

[GraceAnne · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the books I use to show that European picture books are different from American picture books.

[Relyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh.

What I actually wrote in my journal was, "Yuck!"