“My story is very short. I didn’t have parents, and the monks picked me up when I was little, and fed me with the milk of an old goat and the porridge that brother Kashka cooked for me, and I’m five and a half years old... and I don’t have a mother. What are they like, mothers?” It just so happened that Marcelino has no friends. Simply because there are no other children nearby. But the monks who sheltered the little foundling allow him almost everything, except that he can’t climb into the attic using the old creaky stairs. Or is it still possible if no one sees, but you really want to look there?.. So Marcelino did, and unexpectedly met there a Friend for life - both on earth and in eternity. Jose Maria Sanchez-Silva, the only of the Spanish writers was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Gold Medal - the highest award in children's literature.