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Onelio Jorge Cardoso was born in Calabazar de Sagua (Cuba) in 1914. He took baccalaureate studies in his home state but he couldn’t go on with his academic career because of the economic situation of that time. He performed several works (as a trainee in a photographic laboratory, as a rural teacher, as a medicine seller, or as a script writer for radio and television programs), while he was learning his true occupation: being a storyteller, as he liked calling himself.
Pablo Neruda wrote about Onelio Jorge Cardoso: “he is one of the best storytellers in America”.
He was awarded with diverse important literary prizes. His work has been translated to several languages. He died in 1986.
Blacky is the story about the strong relationship between a dog, Blacky, and a country worker and his family. But it is also a beautiful parable about freedom. Using an easy, pleasant, but full of quality style, Onelio Jorge Cardoso offers a story full of warmth and life.
One of the best books for children, according to the children judges of Banco del Libro (Caracas).
“This story is well balanced, its prose is melodious and rhythmical and it becomes swift and exciting when pictures, sounds or events demand it” (María Solé in ABC).
White Little Horse is one of the six fables/stories that form this book. In all of them, Onelio Jorge Cardoso’s poetry, humanism and mastery in narrating bring children closer to conditions where he teaches them to not resign themselves with “reality” but to try to go beyond it, always without forcing the understanding ability of young readers.
Selected by Banco del Libro (Caracas) as one of the best ten books for children.
“six short stories with a charming prose, by the acclaimed Cuban writer” (Banco del Libro).
White Little Horse is a well-known and loved book in Latin America, where it is a classic of Children’s Literature. A nowadays classic.
