Isidro Ferrer is the youngest of a family of 20 children. He had to fight mice for a hunk of cheese to eat. In the end he grew tired of only eating cheese and left home. Then he stowed away on a boat and travelled several times around the world. He used all the wood from the boat to make his sculptures, which grew ever bigger and lovelier, until there was no boat left to carry on and then he had an exhibition. Belén Barber, aged 7.