This book was awarded the 2007 Premio Nacional de Edición by the Ministry of Culture, and it was included in the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List. Kalandraka presents a novel of realism and poetic intensity. Manuel Janeiro creates a tender text, with precise and evocating descriptions that take us back to Dickens, Sánchez Ferlosio and Italo Calvino.

An orphan courageously survives the adversities of his life and makes us see the importance to the real value of small things. With his discovery of the world around him, Pucho shines with his humbleness, the roofs he lives on are the symbol of the world of dreams, imagination and freedom.

The illustrations by Juan Ramón Alonso take us back to Madrid in the 50s and show an innocent and smiling Pucho. The artist combines pencil drawings with photographs of the spaces in which the story takes place. The result is a suggestive and magic work, an exercise of memory in which childhood and life find their support.