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orecchio acerbo editore Foreign rights catalog W inner of the BOP · B est C hildren ’ s P ublisher of the Y ear 2017, E urope Spring 2021
picture books
daybreak
NEW by Daniel Fehr
illustrations Elena Rotondo
for children 4 years and older
pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 21
ISBN 9788832070651 | July 2021 today
NEW by Daniel Fehr
big questions | Great adventures Waiting for Walt
illustrations Simone Rea
for children 4 years and older by Daniel Fehr
The story is about a young boy and his father. pp. 64 | cm. 17 x 24 illustrations Maja Celjia
In the middle of the night they leave their house. ISBN 9788832070590 | April 2021 for children 5 years and older
For the boy it is the first time that he leaves home pp. 32 | cm. 24 x 32 | May 2020
at this time of the night when normally Under the gaze of time | recounting the present
he is asleep. As they walk through the forest stories of the visionary and the absurd
the flashlight of the boy “turns on” part laughter and smiles
A father who is leaving. Two brothers. A long wait.
of the vegetation and at the same time the rest But together it is easier, together it is easy
disappear. He turns off the flashlight and “turns on” to be strong. The older brother reads books Two kids are waiting for Walt. But who is Walt?
all his senses: he experiences the darkness, to the younger one who can’t read yet but can And, if Walt was there with them, what would
the sounds of the forest, the sound of his father, at least choose the book; then they go together they all do together? They would have a lot
the roughness of the ground, the smells… on a secret mission: is every mission of spies of fun, because when he is there he always
He dares not ask for the space and time secret? Then one goes to play football, the other has crazy ideas.
that separate them from their destination, not even one stays home and “read” books watching This is the beginning of a imaginary adventure
what their destination is. the pictures, as mom does with the magazines plunged in a swarm of weird and bizarre
A walk to exalt and celebrate all five senses but on Sunday. And then the spites, the jealousy, characters, some invented, others already seen
also the value of waiting, surprise, solitude, the fights, the solitude. And then together again… and known. Yes, because this story contains
respect for the space of others. An essential book that gently shows us how the a lot of references, from the most obvious
Elena Rotondo is a skilful newcomer illustrator others are important, for growing up, to know in the title Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney,
who was able to capture the delicacy of this text ourselves, to take our measures, to make alliances, to the Walt’s stories characters, from The Cat
and with her style she perfectly caught the to feel strong, to live. in the Hat, to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
atmosphere described by the text. Simone Rea realized the images of this book and to The Chronicles of Narnia…
between March and April 2020, day and night, All references that the little reader can take or not
KOREAN AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE RIGHTS SOLD during the lockdown: a window, always the same without affecting the force of the narration.
Original text: English but each time unexpected, which reflects An ode to the imagination and to the superpower
the stories of those who live there. And Daniel Fehr that only children have: that of inventing stories
has “built” a text on these images, fully grasping and plunge into adventures starting from nothing.
its essence: a diary without days told The illustrator, Maja Celija, must have kept this
by the youngest brother, made of a time that super power considering how much she has
is fluid and difficult to measure, made of thoughts, had fun in giving shape and colour
of relations with others, of discoveries, of life. to this surprising imaginative journey!
Original text: English TURKISH RIGHTS SOLD
Original text: English
How to Get Out of Here and if Yes, When? How to read a Book
by Daniel Fehr by Daniel Fehr
illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello
for children 5 years and older Triclinio and the Beautiful Dorotea
the white ravens 2018
pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 33 | November 2019 by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
“soligatto” award 2019
illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello
laughter and smiles for children 3 years and older for children 6 years and older
pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 33 | April 2018 pp. 44 | cm. 21,2 x 33,8 | March 2019
The second book by the explosive couple Fehr- another point of view | laughter and smiles big questions | laughter and smiles
Quarello. This time the little readers shall help the
two protagonists –always Hansel and Gretel- to
find out how to get out of the book. And they have Reading the book seems easy, but it isn’t! Triclinio has four sisters, but no friends; thanks to
to do it following suggestions and directions of the Especially when you realize that the people drawn his comical name everybody makes fun of him
weird characters they will come across: leaping on the page don’t stay where the pencil has left at school. It falls to Triclinio, the only son in the
from one page to another, the two dive into the them but drift around in the white space family, to accompany his sisters when they go
dense and often ironic scenarios drawn by the of the paper and assume strange poses, depending out with their boyfriends, happy and diverting
talented Quarello. on how you hold the book. And so the two themselves no end. But not for long: a telegram
But the scenarios and the characters seem unfortunate Hänsel and Gretel appear upside down announces the arrival of a cousin, the Beautiful
familiar… Of course, they are all intruders, and old Baba Jaga’s hut has capsized. Dorotea. Greeted by all the men with open mouths,
“escaped” from eleven of the best known tales. Worse still when the sea on which Ahab navigates she unsettles the whole town and above all else
However, the titles of these tales will only be in pursuit of Moby Dick begins to spill on the heads the lives of Triclinio and his sisters. Until one night
revealed at the “end”, when the two have managed of the children and the witch. Little serves Triclinio discovers the secret of her beauty: her
to get out of the book. the well meant advices to the reader: even the poor opulent platinum exuberance is nothing but a wig -
A “leaper” adventure, a reading not at all linear, emperor, naked as he is in the famous tale, Dorotea is completely bald!
definitely exciting and -who knows?- maybe never- ends up with his legs in the air. A funny and definitely politically incorrect tale,
ending… Spins, somersaults, pirouettes. Whether by one of the most sharp and ironic Mexican author.
the images nor the words keep still on the pages.
TURKISH RIGHTS SOLD And you can’t follow them unless you keep turning french Rights Sold
Original text: English the book around. Original text: Spanish
A book to make your head spin!
GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, TURKISH,
Simplified Chinese, greek
AND KOREAN RIGHTS SOLD
Original text: English
bogeyman is looking for a house
by Maurizio A. C. Quarello
“primo voto” award 2006 children’s fiction
for children 3 years and older
Frantz and the Golem pp. 28 | cm. 19 x 19 | September 2005
by Irène Cohen-Janca
OVERCOMING FEAR | another point of view
’45 illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello
by Maurizio A. C. Quarello for children 8 years and older
pp. 48 | cm. 21 x 27 | March 2016 Where the devil have the bogeyman, the ogre,
Andersen award 2018 best picture book and the wolf man gone? And what’s happened
for children 11 years and older STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd | memory to bugaboo? But there are certain wilderness
pp. 96 | cm. 21 x 30 | March 2017 reserves -the dreams of children- where you can
That night, back in 1892, Frantz, a boy from still find them.
memorY | war and peace Some fleeting signs of one little bugaboo, Ababù,
Prague, moves silently in the dark. He has a secret:
he’s going to a forbidden place, the attic of the have been found under the beds of various
It is Christmas 1944. The partisans have set up an synagogue of the city, where the remains of the children. Nope, it’s not the work of anxious mothers
ambush for an SS truck, and a woman is waiting Golem are kept, the giant made of clay that nobody or of grumpy fathers. It’s him, Ababù, forever
for the return of her man. At daybreak she sees could win or stop and that back in the Middle Age, obliged to change his lodgings: if it’s not one thing
him coming from a hill and welcomes him with protected the jews from Prague. The access to the it’s another, nightmares, sickening attention... And
an embrace. But the partisan must hurriedly hide attic is forbidden to everybody, under penalty then, well, he’s looking for Amì, his favourite child.
in the attic as two German soldiers approach the of madness and death, but Frantz can’t resist. Ah yes, children grow fond of their fears, but
farmhouse in search of food. She hides the pistol Shacking and shivering, the boy moves the pile of sometimes their fears also grow fond of them.
he forgot on the window sill and prepares two fried rags that hides a giant cloak and manages to wear
eggs, making herself understood with barely a few it. Suddenly, everything starts to whirl around him
gestures. In that winter the partisans are waiting and he finds himself traveling back in Time. So,
for the arrival of spring to resume their actions. The through his eyes, we see the story of the creation of
war is coming to an end and they unite to prepare the Golem by the cabalist Maharal, back in 1580.
the liberation of the big city. On the 24 of April 1945 A silent giant creature that has incised on its
they begin the Five Days of Turin: the city rises, the forehead the word “Truth” and has received life
factories are being occupied. The moment of victory in order to protect the jewish Prague people, but
and liberation has arrived. On the 6th of May, during that one day seems to become mad and runs away,
the great manifestation in the Piazza Vittorio, in the destroying everything on its way. Back in that time,
midst of the partisan army, celebrating at the side it is Myriam, a girl, that is going to stop it, erasing
of her husband, the woman encounters her soldier the first letter of the word “Truth” from its forehead,
son and as she embraces him her eyes meet those turning it into the word “Death”.
of a captive soldier on a truck – in a flash she finds
herself back on that morning when two fried eggs FRENCH (Europe only) and ENGLISH WORLD
saved her life and that of her family. RIGHTS SOLD
A true story of Maurizio Quarello’s grandfather, a Original text: French
partisan commander, told in images.
FRENCH and german RIGHTS SOLD
baby ELEPHANT GOES TO CHINA
PELICAN HERE PELICAN THERE by Seysle Joslin
NEW by Leonard Weisgard illustrations Leonard Weisgard
for children 3 years and older
for children 4 years and older pp. 48 | cm. 15,4 x 17,7| June 2016
the florist of sarajevo pp. 32 | cm. 20 x 25
NEW by Mario Boccia ISBN 9788832070613 | May 2021 laughter and smiles
illustrations Sonia Maria Luce Possentini
for children 8 years and older Great adventures | The game of the gaze
“My dear Baby Elephant” said Mother Elephant,
pp. 40 | cm. 22 x 31,5 “I have only one suggestion. It is what I used to do
ISBN 9788832070729 | June 2021 When Leonard Weisgard was in California at the beach when I was a baby elephant. It is dig
for the Caldecott Medal award, he was fascinated a hole to China.”
recounting the present | peace and war | Memory by the pelicans diving off the coast. This interest
grew until it became this amusing and delightful Baby Elephant is at the beach together with Mother
February 1992. Mario Boccia, photojournalist, story. The rhythmic text tells of two pelicans Elephant. She would like to read and sunbathe, but
crosses the Sarajevo market. His gaze meets who live on Pelican Island, off the coast he is bored and keeps pestering her.
that of a woman, a florist. A quick exchange of of Florida. One of them is blown north by a big So mother suggests he digs a deep hole to get to
words, a coffee together. In December of the same wind. He returns to find a family to raise. China. Baby Elephant sets to work enthusiastically,
year the photographer is there again. Under the During his flight over handsome colourful places and so begin for him a great adventure and a long
distracted eyes of Europe, Sarajevo is now prisoner the pelican doesn’t notice some things that are imaginary journey during which he will even learn
of a fierce siege that will last four years. From in fact pictured in the drawings and enumerated in some basic Chinese words.
the windows you hear shouting Pazite, Snajper! the text. After “Brave Baby Elephant”, this is another
(watch out, sniper!). But that woman resists with This gives children the chance to pick out one by entertaining story by two stars of American
her apparently superfluous flowers. He asks which one the objects the bird misses children’s literature of the Fifties, about the cute
ethnic group she belongs to and the answer is: “I and allows them to discover these on their own or and courageous (and hungry) elephant so well
was born in Saraje-vo”. The photographer then together with the reader. remembered by children.
asks her what her name is and she scribbles The pictures by one of our most distinguished
something on a piece of paper: “Florist”. No name, illustrators make this book an art experience that Original text: English
no ethnicity, no affiliation. Since then, coming back will be loved and read over and over again. RUSSIAN rights sold
to see her be-comes for Mario an appointment not European and UK Commonwealth rights only
to be missed. Even after the Markale massacre at Original text: English
the Sa-rajevo market, in 1994, the photographer ENGLISH RIGHTS RESERVED
finds her in her place. Until the day she isn’t there
anymore. Nor her flowers. She’s gone for ever,
that woman who decided to be above all else -and
despite- the florist of Sarajevo.
A book to remember those who did not want to
bow to ethnic and religious divisions.
A delicate and poignant story of dignity and
resistance.
brave baby elephant
by Seysle Joslin
illustrations Leonard Weisgard THE ISLAND OF SHADOWS
Andersen award 2015 best book 0-6 years NEW by Davide Calì
for children 3 years and older illustrations Claudia Palmarucci
pp. 48 | cm. 15,4 x 17,7 | October 2014 for children 6 years and older
pp. 56 | cm. 23 x 30
OVERCOMING FEAR
ISBN 9788832070491 | April 2021 marie curie IN THE COUNTRY OF THE SCIENCE
the difficulty of growing up | laughter and smiles
by Irène Cohen-Janca
other animals | recounting the present illustrations Claudia Palmarucci
It was the night of Baby Elephant’s great Bologna Ragazzi Award 2020 Non Fiction
adventure, when he was to go off by himself, A real manual against bad dreams. From traps
all alone! In preparation he ate a double helping Orbil award 2020 “Divulgation” category
for gasping nightmares, to big holes dug for those
of everything for supper as well as the very special giant ones; from cages for screaming nightmares for children 8 years and older
dessert Mother Elephant had made to sticky foods for the swarming ones…: to every pp. 88 | cm. 16,5 x 26,5 | October 2019
for the occasion. Thus strengthened, he carefully type of nightmare is dedicated an ad hoc method to
chose what he should wear, and he also took his hunt it down and vanquish it. A useful guide drawn big questions
lantern, his sword, and his Bear with him. up by a real expert in the subject, Dr Wallaby, with
Then, having said good-bye to his family the help of his loyal assistant, Sirio, a dingo. The life of Maria Sklodowska, marked by tragic events,
and armed with the basket of food Mother Elephant One day Dr Wallaby bumps into a vey special case, but also a story of courage, tenacity, love, solidarity
gave him, he sallied forth. at first sight insolvable: an empty, dull, and thirst for knowledge. The death of her mother,
What happens in his great adventure makes a story profound and motionless dream, the nightmare the life in the dormitories, the death of one sister, an
that will keep small children chuckling with delight of the Thylacine. It doesn’t correspond to any of the impossible love… beside all this and despite all this,
right up to the surprise ending. dream’s categories, neither the more common ones, in Maria’s life there is the play, the laughter, and above
nor the rare ones, and it needs the consultation all the teaching: Maria grows up on the conviction that
Original text: English of an old manual, very old, the oldest one… knowledge is the only richness of life. And this is the
RUSSIAN rights sold And in fact, the one of the Thylacine is a non- driving force of all her choices. Thousand sacrifices
European and UK Commonwealth rights only dream, the dream of an extinct animal. to go to the Sorbonne in Paris, since in her country
A funny book populated by unusual Australian the universities are closed to women, then the great
animals, but addressing a the subject love for Pierre Curie, the discovery of polonium
of the dramatic extinction of some species. and radium. And then the death of Pierre. Her love
The extraordinary images by Claudia Palmarucci of people and of science prompts her to use her
give substance and life to all the characters of the knowledge and discoveries to attend to the wounded
story. Moreover, in the final pages, Claudia gives in the war. An emotional story by Irène Cohen-
us a compendium with all extinct and endangered Janca and illustrated by the skilful hands of Claudia
animals, using an iconography with a flavour Palmarucci in over 80 drawings.
inspired by the antique scientific manuals.
spanish world, CATALAN, Korean, Portuguese
FRENCH, KOREAN AND COMPLEX CHINESE RIGHTS SOLD (Brazil) and SIMPLIFIED chinese rights sold
Original text: French
THE HOUSES OF OTHER KIDS kalief’s island the panther under the bed
by Luca Tortolini NEW by Davide Orecchio
by Andrea Bajani
illustrations Claudia Palmarucci illustrations Mara Cerri illustrations Mara Cerri
bologna ragazzi award 2016 for children 8 years and older “festival della Mente” award 2015
special mention pp. 32 | cm. 21 x 30
ISBN 9788832070583 | March 2021 “festival di Letteratura dei ragazzi Gianni Rodari”
for children 6 years and older award
pp. 48 | cm 24 x 34 | August 2015 the courage to say no for children 7 years and older | pp. 44
the difficulty of growing up | another point of view cm. 21,4 x 30,8 | March 2015
A girl is about to fly to school on her skateboard.
The air is pure and free, the surrounding nature OVERCOMING FEAR | the difficulty of growing up
Ten kids and ten different ways of living in a house. is wonderful and she is happy. But it hasn’t always another point of view
Ten short stories telling different childhoods, been like this on Kalief’s Island.
portraited beyond windows, walls and doors. There are stories of a time when the air stank Father and child in front of the night.
Small houses, or enormous ones, full of people or of fumes and all that existed on the island was In that mountain house, surrounded by silence,
full of things, houses looking like stables made of an enormous prison, Rikers Prison, where one day the young girl knows very well that in the dark
wood and tin. Silent houses or full of music ones. Kalief was taken, an upright boy with big eyes. everything will disappear. For that reason she
Houses where you can just imagine the movie, He was accused of stealing a bag, but he insisted comes to an agreement with her father: for night
although they are built exactly over the movie on his innocence. Within those walls, under pees, she can keep an old pan under her bed, so
theatre. Houses having a precise smell. Houses punches than freedom through lying. What he was she won’t be swallowed by darkness.
which are not hotels and houses which are hotels. fighting for was no more than a fair trial. The sleep doesn’t come, instead, timely, she needs
Houses that really exist and houses that it would be But instead there was only an isolation cell. to pee. Under the bed, the young girl doesn’t find
nice if they existed. In each one there is someone Only after years of this Calvary a judge realized only the pan: a panther, black and mysterious as
acting and moving: fat, happy, sad and foreign that Kalief might be broken, but never bent into the night, is waiting for her.
relatives (perhaps too many). House for kids means admitting a truth that wasn’t his. When they Facing the panther is almost like facing the night:
something like ‘shell’, not always comfortable. liberated him, he had lost all of himself, even both are scaring, but both can be explored.
Inside, kid are looking for their own dimension. Each the will to live. He embraced mother and brothers The adults believe that a bulb is enough to have
house, as much as each kid, is a whole other story. and went out by the window, never to return. back the world that has been taken by darkness,
And at the end there is the eleventh house: Claudia’s However, his tenacious struggle did serve but, during that magic night, the father must agree
one. With wooden floor, it’s plenty of pastels, to transform that bleak time, that sordid city, with his child: beyond the closed door there is
paintbrushes, and sheet of papers everywhere. into a flowering garden where children nothing, anymore. The young girl, however, has
Claudia, once grown up, will use them to create and aren’t afraid to live. faced the panther and now she knows the mistery
paint stories with ‘other kids’. The story of Kalief, Kalief Browder, and the prison of that darkness that made the mountain disappear.
on Rikers Island is a true story. Now she knows the night and it will be easy to
French and SIMPLIFIED CHINESE rights sold
ride it by her pan, as a surfboard on the surface of
another mystery: the sea.
upon a falling star
VIA CURIEL 8 by Mara Cerri
the swimmer by Mara Cerri
by Paolo Cognetti book+DVD with the animated movie
THE WHITE RAVENS 2005
illustrations Mara Cerri by Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi for children 10 years and older
for young people and adults pp. 32 | cm. 20 x 27 | March 2007
winner of Torino Film festival 2011
pp. 60 | cm. 19,5 x 27,8 | June 2013 first edition, september 2004 (MILLEMILLIMETRI)
for children 9 years and older | February 2012 SOLD OUT
OVERCOMING FEAR | big questions
recounting the present the difficulty of growing up | big questions the difficulty of growing up
One faceless writer. One nameless boy. Two fears. Emma and Dario. Joy and gratification at being Designer clothes. Nikes. Piercings.
Loosing inspiration and looking dominated by the special one. Then, curiosity, the thrill of There’s no trace of any of these things in Mara
childhood tremblings. In a muggy night the writer anticipation, hesitation. Finally, assurance, Cerri’s book of wishes.
dreams his own tale, worrying to forget it at the complicity, tenderness, love. Her list of desires is more concrete: to be liked
awakening. Heat, frustration, a silent city, an And, above all, the sure hope of being able to face by others and to like oneself: to be in harmony
oppressive roof make him dreaming about a young the future together. But right when everything with the world around us. A tale about the desire,
swimmer. A twelve-year-old boy during training seems to be going right, come doubts, trepidation, and the fear, common to all adolescents, that of
has to prove his valour in face of everyone. He has uncertainties. And fear. Fear of being abandoned, becoming an adult.
to jump in a stretch of water in a cave. The young fear of being alone. With tenderness and In Italian, English, and French, because this is a
boy is very nervous on the trampoline and he sensitivity, Mara Cerri addresses these feelings; desire that knows no boundaries.
looks around hesitating. He crosses the trainer’s she brings them to bloom, suggesting that we A little how-to book on discovering one’s real
strict eyes. He jumps. And the water lulls him to confront them together, the better to resolve them. desires.
the depth. There, the writer and the carachter look
at each other and recognize themselves and their FIRST EDITION, febRUARY 2009, ISBN 978-88-89025-69-7 Spanish Rights sold
fears. They realize they need to breathe again and pp. 64 | cm. 23,5 x 33,5
to swim to the surface. A stretch of water, a mirror long seller!
with images and words reflected. A game which
changes the point of view in the course of reading.
A book, poetic like a held deep breath, and soft like
the stuff of dreams.
complex chinese rights sold
THE mystery of ancient creatures
ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky
by Nadia Terranova for children 8 years and older
illustrations Lorenzo Mattotti pp. 56 | cm. 25 x 24 | November 2007
for children 5 years and older
pp. 88 | cm. 24 x 24 | November 2020 other animals
stories of the visionary and the absurd
Great adventures
stories of the visionary and the absurd bertoldo, bertoldino AND cacasenno
A big abandoned park in the heart of the city. Rocky
by Serenella Quarello
crevasses, dry twisted branches, sand dunes, and
This is the story of a street kid, of his adventures illustrations Michele Rocchetti
slimy bogs… The kingdom of the Ancient Creatures.
and of everything that happens to him: for children 7 years and older
Maura and Rocco find it irresistible. Despite their
getting lost, finding himself, falling in love, pp. 64 | cm. 21 x 29,7 | September 2020
fears, they’re hoping to meet Sirens and basilisks,
growing up, being afraid, tempting fate, falling into chimeras and centaurs, hydras and dragons there. laughter and smiles | big questions
disgrace, becoming courageous, despairing, and Or at least their ghosts. But, once they’re over the
having a lot of fun. It teaches us one thing above wall, they come up against a scary old man made of
all: that fortune belongs to no one but is available Three generations of villains, a little smart
flesh and bone. It’s Eustacchio, one-time zookeeper,
to those who know how to use it. and a little dumb, at the King’s court.
when there still was a zoo! He accompanies them
The famous tale from One Thousand and One The founder is Bertoldo, a simple but witty
on their journey as they discover the Winged Cat,
Nights rewritten by Nadia Terranova countryman. In spite of his evident ugliness
the Deerfish, the Albino Trill, the Hare-Heron, and
–award-winning and translated in several and certain rudeness the king wants him around
the Night Puma… A rich imagination and a longing
countries- accompanied by the drawings in the throne room, to amuse himself with
for nature merge in this extraordinary and surreal
of an undisputed master of illustration. his answers and for his cunning advice.
menagerie.
To entertain himself, the king teases him with
abstruse questions or pitfalls, to which the villain
always responds by giving the king a good laugh.
Clever but not immortal, one dark day even
Bertoldo must die, and the king, who already
misses his jokes, calls to court his ugly wife
Marcolfa and Bertoldino, the son.
Bertoldino, though slow of understanding, marries
and has a son, Cacasenno. However, none of them
can make the king laugh as Bertoldo could…
A retelling of a witty 17th century folk tale
by Giulio Cesare Croce, framed by the riotous
drawings of Michele Rocchetti.in the tube
by Alice Barberini
for children 5 years and older
pp. 64 | cm. 29,5 x 22 | September 2020
big questions
The early morning silence is broken by the fight
of two siblings –a girl, the older, a boy,
the younger- and by a number of warnings written
The ship of fools in post-it notes by their mother.
by Marco Taddei The last one, stuck on the front door, says HOLD
illustrations Michele Rocchetti hamelin the city of silence
HANDS. And it’s exactly this one that will separate
for children 8 years and older by Alice Barberini
the two siblings: entering the subway to go
pp. 48 | cm. 23 x 30,1 | July 2016 for children 6 years and older
to school, the boy who didn’t see the post-it,
pp. 80 | cm. 21 x 29,5 | September 2017
stopped to collect something that has been glued
STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd under his shoe: it was the post-it. The girl goes big questions | the difficulty of growing up
laughter and smiles ahead and the two lose sight of each other.
From here their paths separate: the girl believes
Brandano, half Ulysses and half picaresque hero, The story of Hamelin, the town where every sound
she is following her brother but then she realises
has a dream: the earth is not flat as a carpet, but was banned, told by the grandfather, called
that she has mistaken him for another child.
is round as a barrel. From the village of Saggionia the lame, to his granddaughter.
The boy begins his adventure in search of his sister,
he leaves with a pierced vessel and a crew of fools. Many years ago the children of the town were
asking passer-bys, but without success.
Aiming to Orient, among many adventures they forbidden to make noise, but the day the piper
At the end they find themselves united in picking
arrive to unexplored lands, meet dragons, Kraken, came all children joined him and his wonderful
up the post-it that had been lost again.
islands of sleepwalkers and wise maidens. music. None returned. Only one child remained,
A wordless book, a metaphor about getting lost
The Journey doesn’t stop even when they arrive the lame. From that day on, every sound was
and finding yourself again immersed in a rarefied
to hell sailing through the bowels of the earth. forbidden and without children and without music,
and suspended atmosphere that enhances
Not even the devils overcome this overwhelming people shut themselves away in a grim silence.
moods and emotions.
crew. As Verne already proved, if you arrive and But today there is something new in the air: the
go beyond the centre of the earth, there is always sound of a barrel organ that, magically as then,
Simplified Chinese rights sold
something waiting for you on the other side…. will get together all people and make
Written in a compelling language that reminds the children play. Again.
the simple and cultured one of Gargantua and
Pantagruele by Rabelais, Marco Taddei, and the
illustrator Michele Rocchetti produce a tale made
of astonishment and uncontrolled fun, where
reality succumbs to fantasy, wisdom to madness,
and where it is shown that Earth is round.The Lumber Room
by Saki
illustrations Cinzia Ghigliano
for children 7 years and older
pp. 44 | cm. 22 x 22 | February 2018
rudyard laughter and smiles | the difficulty of growing up
the dog and the moon the child with glasses
by Alice Barberini by Cinzia Ghigliano Nicholas has found a frog in his bowl of milk.
for children 3 years and older for children 5 years and older Despite the incredulity of the aunt of his cousins,
pp. 84 | cm. 20 x 28 | September 2015 pp. 44 | cm. 21 x 28,7 | August 2020 he absolutely doesn’t want to eat his infested
breakfast: he knows that is all true, since
big questions | extraordinary friendships the difficulty of growing up | big questions he is the one that let the amphibian take a dive
into the milk bowl! A punishment is essential
A little dog working in a circus has fallen in love Imagined and desired – before he was even born – and Nicholas is denied the supposed privilege
with a paper moon hanging down the big top. on the shores of lake Rudyard in England of going to the beach with the other children.
It’s a complicated love story. The paper moon is old by two parents in love; born in India He will stay with the old aunt, expert in
and broken and it’s ready to be thrown away. and surrounded by the attention and affection punishment for wicked children, who includes in
The dog escapes from the circus with the moon in of his father and mother between the wild colours the penance a prohibition to enter the gooseberry
its cart, but once in the big city, Paris, it experiences of banana trees, tigers and antelopes – that India garden. But the aunt doesn’t know that, contrary
loneliness, hunger and cold, until a young boy where he learned not to be afraid of animals; to what Nicholas will let her believe strategically
picks the dog up. But also for the moon who was then growing up in the grey of England, far away and astutely, his desired place is neither the beach
left alone on the pavement, there is a place in the from his parents – where he met the magical and nor the gooseberry garden, but the lumber room.
world: it is 1902 and that elegant man who picks liberating power of books, unique – and strictly A place, secret, mysterious and dimly lit that, once
it up is Georges Méliès. forbidden – refuges from the vexations of the reached, won’t disappoint his expectations and
The poster of “Le Voyage dans la lune” will make it governess to whom he has been entrusted; will stir his imagination: a piece of tapestry with a
famous forever. going almost blind by dint of reading in secret hunter who has hunted a stag, but will the hunter
in the dark of a closet… save himself from the four wolves that are stalking
French (Europe only) and Korean rights sold His name? Rudyard –as the lake- Kipling! him? The shrill shrieks of the aunt jolt Nicholas out
The adventurous and melancholy childhood of from his paradise: looking for him, she has fallen
the Nobel Prize for Literature told by the touching into the empty rain-water tank and wants him to
drawings of Cinzia Ghigliano, who retraces and help her get out from there. What better way to
describes atmospheres and emotions that have make fun of her? Yet he is barred from the garden,
marked the life of the author as well as his work. and what’s more, it doesn’t even seems to be the
aunt’s voice; it must surely be the Devil who wants
to tempt him… better to sneak off! The night falls,
the aunt has been saved by a maid, the children
have come back form the beach.
Nicholas is absorbed in his thoughts, he imagines
that the huntsman on the tapestry will escape
while the wolves devour the deer…
Original text: Englishdiamonds
by Armin Greder
afterword Francesco Boille
for children 7 years and older
pp. 36 | cm. 29,4 x 20,4 | August 2020
recounting the present
Diamonds. Clear and pure, immaculate pledges
of undying love, adorning the beautiful, bestowing
prestige. Paid with credit cards here and with blood
“I will save you!” history there. A new book by Armin Greder, in the vein
of the unforgettable rin-tin-tin of The Strangers and Mediterraneo, Diamonds is THE Mediterranean
by Anna Lavatelli an indictment of the corruption and evil that stain by Armin Greder
illustrations Cinzia Ghigliano diamonds and that we prefer to ignore, afterword Alessandro Leogrande
for children 6 years and older lest our conscience keep us awake at night.
Scelte di classe award 2018
pp. 40 | cm. 21 x 28,5 | February 2017 A brief starting dialogue where a daughter, curious
SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Picture Book of the Year, 2019
about the diamonds that her mother is wearing,
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their provenance. The survey of the little girl pp. 40 | cm. 22 x 31,5 | July 2017
Not far from Paris, in Asnières, there is a cemetery is brushed off with a listless and summary answer,
but eloquent enough to open a big door in the little Recounting the present
of dogs. There lies buried a famous dog: Rintintin,
known as Rinty, the dog made an American film girl’s imagination. From now on the narration
star by the soldier Lee Duncan. His story begins is left to images as powerful as only Greder is able A lifeless body. One of the many in the waters of
in France, at the end of World War I. An American to draw. And they narrate the nightmare of the girl the Mediterranean, of our sea.
soldier finds a litter of German Shepherds in the that others live, trapped far away in another world, Repugnant dinners of fish that fill our tables.
ruins of a village between the Meuse and the Rhine. and that yet others -far nearer to her- prefer Dinner guests, our dinner guests, greedy
He decides to keep one and take it with him back to to overlook and consequently perpetuate. merchants of death.
California once the war is over. Shipments of weapons, their ships navigating in all
On his return he realises that the great bond english world and korean RIGHTS SOLD safety the waters of the Mediterranean, of our sea,
between him and his dog can be put at the service Original text: English from north to south. Arming fratricidal hands,
of the cinema. And so, in Los Angeles, where the tearing apart and emptying villages, regions,
studios of Hollywood are emerging, the dog found countries. Processions of men, women, children,
in France, named after a traditional lucky charm doll, fleeing across the sands and stones of deserts. A
becomes a four legged star. On his death, Duncan mirage of a boat, a precarious boat, to navigate the
decides to bury him not far from where he found waters of the Mediterranean, our sea, from south
him, and so that cemetery near Paris came to receive to north. And often, each time more often, it is not
his remains. And it is from there that his spirit tells only hopes that drown.
its glorious history on Halloween Night. After The Island, another severe act of accusation
A book to remember a childhood icon and an signed by Armin Greder.
icon of cinema that comes back to life in a text of A book mute, without words.
Anna Lavatelli and the images of Cinzia Ghigliano, Against our indifference and complicity.
striking like still photographs.
English WORLD and Korean rights sold
Original text: EnglishTHE VERY LONELY SNAKE
by Armin Greder
for children 3 years and older
pp. 36 | cm. 21 x 19,8 | August 2016
laughter and smiles
A snake, newly awaken from his hibernation, is
looking for friends. But not everything that moves, italy from a to z the strangers
not everything that is long, not everything that is by Armin Greder and Goffredo Fofi by Armin Greder
thin is necessarily a snake. In the garden, each time for young adults for children 11 years and older
the snake thinks he’s found a friend he is wrong. pp. 48 | cm. 16,8 x 30 | October 2015 pp. 32 | cm. 22 x 31,5 | June 2012
Scattered here and there are electrical wires, a
lizard, a garden hose, a shoelace recounting the present | big questions war and peace | recounting the present | MEMORy
and a belt but no snakes. Just when the snake is
convinced he will spend his life alone, in front of From the A of Adriatic to the Z of Zombies, passing An ancient country, cultivated with olive groves,
him appears an attractive female snake who invites by the F of Fellini and the P of Pizzeria - forty- and rocks. Home to an ancient people. One day,
him to follow her to the other side of the garden, five merciless drawings of contemporary Italy, or, the Foreigners arrive. “This country belongs to us.
where they see a man without a shoe and with his maybe more to the point, forty-five selfies. Looking We lived here for a very long time, then we were
pants dropped, scolding his dog who has stolen through the images and the words it is difficult cast out, and now, after much suffering, we have
laces, belts, and electrical wire. if not impossible to not to recognise ourselves, returned. And we don’t intend to leave here ever
A visual feast for the eyes, with a play on shapes. more than once, in our attitudes, situations and again.” One country, for two peoples. A war which
behaviour. Postcards. Illustrated postcards telling tears them apart, and then a wall, which divides
simplified chinese, spanish and catalan about Italy. Drawn and written by an extraordinary them. In the style of an ancient parable which is as
rights sold pair of travellers: Armin Greder and Goffredo Fofi. relevant as ever, Armin Greder’s main themes
Original text: English come through in his pared down, simple style: the
Original text: English loss of dialogue, the possibility of living side
by side; and the universal right to life.
And to happiness.
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Original text: EnglishON THE LINE
by Francis Blanche
illustrations Mirjana Farkas
Child’s play for children 4 years and older
the city
by Alessandra Lazzarin pp. 32 | cm. 24 x 29,5 | January 2020
by Armin Greder
translated by Alessandro Baricco for children 3 years and older
big questions
afterword by Antonio Faeti pp. 36 | cm. 21 x 30 | June 2020
for children 12 years and older
POWER TO THE IMAGINATION The world comes alive on a line: clothes hanging
pp. 36 | cm. 22 x 31,5 | January 2009
that play among themself, dancing birds singing
big questions | the difficulty of growing up An afternoon at grandma’s house to play, of love, a circus dancer who perilously glides along
OVERCOMING FEAR an afternoon like any other, apparently… under the spellbound eyes of children.
Yet nothing is obvious when there are three little And then, with balls, puppets, light bulbs, spiders,
playing, and nothing is as it seems! “on the line all life is unfolding, on the line it ties
“A long time ago in a far-off land, there was a big
Under the leaves an enchanted world is hiding, and unties itself ”together with our loves
city where the sky was always grey and sometimes
the wind that is drying the washing lines brings us and our dearest hopes.
the winter lasted three years. A woman lived there.
to an exciting adventure, the somersaults turn us A cheerful ballad in rhymes, sung by Charles
She had a child. A son”.
into acrobats in the circus, the hedges hide exotic Trenet in the‘40s and now illustrated by the
Then war came, and with war, the death of the
and fierce creatures... colourful and joyful drawings of Mirjana Farkas.
child’s father. Motherly love, sweet and tender,
becomes stronger and firmer. And more protective. The delicate hand of the emerging author
Alessandra Lazzarin takes us to a parallel world Original text: French
Trying to find a place where her son would be safe,
the woman left her home and the city and took of little girls and little boy’s imagination,
refuge in a far-flung place where she could as true and concrete as the “real” one.
take care of him. Until one night, And the transition to this fantastical world is made
when there was no moon, even more easy and fluent thanks to a sparse
the mother died. And it was then and essential text made of word games that refer
that the wolves arrived… to the imaginary scenarios.
A fairytale for children and for mothers, which
speaks of the courage, the hard work and the pain
it takes to grow up and, above all, to let children
grow.
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Original text: Englishfriends
by Satomi Ichikawa
for children 3 years and older
pp. 32 | cm. 23 x 21 | October 2019
Here you are! big questions | laughter and smiles
by Mirjana Farkas
for children 3 years and older There are many sayings on friends and friendship:
pp. 36 | cm. 24 x 29 | May 2014 “who finds a friends, finds a treasure”,
THE EVIL TIGERS
“you know a true friend when trouble comes”,
big questions | laughter and smiles by Pierdomenico Baccalario
“Little friends may prove great friends”…
illustrations Marta Pantaleo
Everyone needs friends, to play, to share, to create,
What might a gentle fairy give a baby as a gift ? for children 5 years and older
to invent, to be moved, to seek refuge, to fight, to
She could present to him with the power pp. 24 | cm. 21 x 30 | December 2019
search for, to grow…
to fly like a rocket in the life space; Great adventures This ballad about friendship by Satomi Ichikawa
the games to laugh, to learn, to create; reveals to the little readers what friendship means,
the words to ask questions; its importance, what the numerous treasures
the consolation against the tears, and even more The city of Turin is in turmoil about the Turin
hidden in it are.
curiosity, music and drawing to never get bored. International Exhibition which is approaching, but
The delicate and poetic text in rhyme is an added
Maybe we don’t need a fairy with her magic wand, in the Pilone neighborhood all are gathered for the
value to the revealing and eloquent illustrations.
because a baby is already endowed with all these Captain’ funeral.
Friendship is a world to find out, to live!
gifts. A welcome greeting, a colour delight, Friends are there to say goodbye, and among
the perfect recipe for them cannot miss his several Tiger cubs, under
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every new growing life. the guidance of Emilio, who’s now in the guise of
Yanez. The handful of valiant warriors, little boys
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and little girls with knees in the breeze, wooden
Original text: French scimitars and improvised turbans, can’t believe it
and so they proceed to the Captain’s house to make
sure he has really left… And there, waiting for
them, is not the Captain but piles of written sheets,
statuettes, daggers and lots of books. But above
all there are his animals. It is the task of the Tiger
cubs to free them and to take care of them so that
at least they should not end badly. Only the parrot
flies away through window, repeating to the air the
name of the everyone’s hero: Sandokan!
Adventurous and touching.the poor people sredni vashtar
by Saki Charlie and me
by Lev Tolstoy
illustrations Francesca Pusceddu by Luca Tortolini
illustrations Chiara Ficarelli
for children 7 years and older illustrations Giacomo Garelli
for children 7 years and older
pp. 48 | cm. 21 x 29,7 | August 2019 for children 5 years and older
pp. 36 | cm. 21,2 x 30,4 | August 2019
pp. 48 | cm. 21,5 x 30 | July 2019
big questions STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd
the difficulty of growing up laughter and smiles
One of the four tales of the reading cycle for
Conradin is ten and lives with Mrs De Ropp, who is “After only three hours, seven minutes and
children written in 1907 by Lev Tolstoy, inspired by
both his cousin and stern tutor. She secretly enjoys sixteen very very long seconds in line, my mother,
the poetry of Victor Hugo “Les pauvres gens”.
her frequent reproaches and the harsh punishments my father and I could at last sit down on the
Jeanne and Paul have three children. Paul, a
and privations to which she subjects him, including comfortable chairs of the Roxy, the cinema near
fisherman, has gone out to sea that morning. A
butter and toasted bread. Little Conradin escapes Times Square where a movie by the great Charlie
terrible storm convulses the sea and by evening Paul
into his fervent imagination, and hides in an old Chaplin is being projected. After the first big
has still not returned. “Would he have drowned?”,
shed at the bottom of the garden, inhabited by an laughs, suddenly, fire, flames and smoke invade
asks Jeanne, all the more anxious and worried by the
old hen and a ferret, where he is safe from the eyes the cinema. Everyone runs away, including
thought of what would be of her and their children
of all. The animal becomes for the child a powerful my parents, and guess who they think
if Paul was not to return. At that dramatic moment
exotic deity: Sredni Vashtar. In his devotion, Conradin is the culprit? Charlie Chaplin!
Jeanne’s thoughts turn to Lise, her sick neighbour,
attributes every little or great misfortune that And me, because I try to defend him.
a widow with two children. She decides to go and
happens to his tutor to the intervention of the god This is the beginning of my exciting adventures
see her, but to her horror she finds her dead, the two
with sharp teeth and coarse pelt. Until the day when alongside the great Tramp!”
children at the foot of the bed, holding on to each
his visits to the shed alarm the cousin who promptly An escape through the New York’s 1920
other. Without hesitation she takes them and brings
goes and investigates. Conradin can only pray: “Do skyscrapers, full of fun and hilarious encounters,
them to her own house. Now there are five children.
something, Sredni Vashtar!” Locked in the house the as depicted in the wonderful illustrations
What to do if her husband does not return? And
boy watches anxiously from behind the window: it by Giacomo Garelli and in graphics inspired
if he does return, would he let them stay? A short
is a long time, too long, he thinks, for her to be face by silent movie title cards.
and intense story, a succession of strong emotions,
to face with the animal. It is then that the cousin And accompanied by the sheet music
continuous, contrasting and painful. Chiara Ficarelli,
finds out what has happened, barely a few moments –under the illustrations- of a melody
first time illustrator, has managed perfectly to
after a ferret sneaks toward the bushes, and only an to be downloaded via a link to be found
grasp the drama of the story and to transfer it to her
instant before Conradin spreads a heap of butter at the end of the book.
spectacular illustrations full
of emphasis and pathos. on his second slice of toast. Saki makes us reflect on
the obtuseness of the world of the adults
KOREAN RIGHTS SOLD and the redemption of childhood.
Original text: Russian
Original text: EnglishWHITE REINDEER
by Kim Sena
for children 4 years and older
pp. 36 | cm. 24 x 25 | November 2014
STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd
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lea and the elephant
It’s Time To Go
by Kim Sena Hanna is glowing. She always speaks with animals
by Kim Sena
for children 6 years and older and trees and now she is looking forward to
for children 6 years and older
pp. 44 | cm. 23,2 x 33,4 | January 2017 meeting her father who, as a profession, takes care
pp. 44 | cm. 22,8 x 33,4 | February 2019
STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd
of forests with its inhabitants. She’s travelling with
BIG QUESTIONS
the difficulty of growing up
her mother, but Hanna as luggage has just a small
bonsai, the imaginative name is Fish-Living-Tree,
Mia and Lucy. A girl and an owl. An enduring inseparable friend of her.
Lea fills her house with everything that she loves. Alike imaginative is their travel mate, White
friendship. The moment to say goodbye has come.
But she always feels empty and always wants Reindeer, contemporary Centaur, a head of a
Lucy must leave because the black panther which
more. One day she invites an elephant to tea, and reindeer on a human body, joined by a moltitude
is waiting in the distance is about to take her away.
promises to teach him how to fly. She paints his of frogs. Apologizing for the bother, he’s offering
But why right now? And where to?
skin and gives him a red balloon, but the elephant some chocolates to Hanna and to her mother.
Will you maybe go back to where you came from?
still can’t fly. Days and days go by and the elephant Magic pralines, both black red. The second ones are
asks the downcast child. Mia and Lucy return
has not been taught how to fly. In the end it is the prohibited to humans, nevertheless, the intrigued
to the place where they first met, accompanied
elephant who teaches Lea something, that tricks mother tastes one of them and suddenly becomes
by the thought that the many things lived together
and lies are not necessary in order to make friends. a frog.
will keep them united forever. As long as
Kim Sena, Korean author and illustrator, in her Desperately Hanna begs Mr. Reindeer to give her
she can imagine her she will not feel the pain
second book, creates a story about how the power mother back but, looking at his sad eyes, she notes
of her absence, Lucy whispers to Mia. Silently,
of friendship can fill a void that material objects he’s missing an antler.
the panther arrives. It is time to part.
cannot. No hesitation in Hanna: here it’s necessary a graft.
Solace comes with the night, looking at the moon:
the same moon is reflected in the eyes of both A generous transplantation by her magic and
Korean, Complex Chinese, Russian, GREEK, inseparable bonsai.
of them, now so very distant, but always close.
PORTUGUESE and Turkish rights sold So, in that way, as a miracle, the double spell
A story that Kim Sena writes almost to herself,
Original text: Korean is broken: the reindeer finds the forest again
trying to find a way to come to terms with
separation, to make sense of it. and the mother her feature.
german, Korean, Russian and Greek rights sold Original text: English
Original text: EnglishWhere is the House of the Eagle?
There once was a hunter by Fabian Negrin
by Fabian Negrin
“Soligatto” Award 2017
for young people and adults
pp. 32 | cm. 24 x 32 | January 2019 “Cassa di Cento” Award 2017 Illustrators category
the tempest
for children 4 years and older by William Shakespeare
STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd
pp. 28 | cm. 23,5 x 29,5 | October 2017 adaptation by Mary Lamb
big questions
illustrations Fabian Negrin
big questions | the difficulty of growing up for children 8 years and older
A hunter wounds his prey. Following its tracks, STORIEs of the VISIONary and the absurd pp. 48 | cm. 20 x 30 | November 2016
he is reflected in the same water from which
the prey has just drunk, and so he changes into The umpteenth little lamb has disappeared. big questions
a mythological being, half man and half deer. Who is responsible for this? It is the eagle,
When they finally meet, the prey has changed as usual! There are those who would like to bump Prospero, deposed Duke of Milan and magician,
into a woman. The two worlds, the human and the off the bird, but another is fatally attracted has been living for years on an island in the ocean,
animal, merge; hunter and prey fall in love. When by it and want to rescue it. And so he sets out on together with his daughter Miranda. His brother
the night ends, both return to their own universe, an heroic adventure: searching for the predator’s Antonio has relegated him there. The island is
but not for long. Love, the force that moves the house, to advise him of the menace and save him. magical. Once haunted by the witch Sicorace
world, draws them together again: an encounter He asks for help from the shrewd fox, and now inhabited only by her son, the monster
from which springs... another life. from the wise owl, from the fearful squirrel, Caliban, and by spirits imprisoned in the trunks of
In the tradition of the Greek myth of Actaeon from the haughty deer, from the famished bear, trees. Prospero takes along Caliban and frees the
and of the brothers Grimm and the White Doe from the discouraging steinbock: none wants spirits from the spell. Grateful, they all become
of Mme D’Aulnoy, the author takes the theme to help him in his endeavour. his faithful servants, first and foremost Ariel,
of metamorphosis a step further. Finally he succeeds, he reaches his eagle! their leader. With his arts and the power of the
Nothing is what it appears to be, everything Despite the warning of its saviour, the generous spirits Prospero is able to rule over the elements
changes, only love is permanent. and daring predator takes flight and, on his back, of nature. And so, when he discovers the usurper
A book of images alone, because words are brings him home, save and sound. Antonio and his accomplice, the King of Naples,
superfluous in love. There, his parents are waiting for him, astonished. at sea, he unleashes a storm to force them to land
Who is the hunter? Who is the prey? The tale, in rhymes, of the adventurous journey on the island. And here begins the vengeance. In
Why hunting, when it is so bewitching of a child across steep and inhospitable mountains the end injustice and abuse will be defeated, the
to be hunted? in the pursuit of a dream: meet and save wrongs forgiven and love will triumph.
An introduction to the eternal play of love, his favourite animal and… fly! A truly outstanding book with fold-out pages
in the form of an illustrated album. in panorama format. 78 x 30 cm.
Original text: Englishfairy tales on THE MOBILE PHONE love awaits you A THOUSAND DAYS AND ONE NIGHT
by Fabian Negrin by Fabian Negrin by Fabian Negrin
2010 “liber” award, 2° place, best book of the year 2009 bib plaque at the biennial illustrations 2009 bib plaque 2009 at the biennial illustrations
2011 finalist at “soligatto” of bratislava (bib) of bratislava (bib)
for children 4 years and older for children 14 years and older finalist 2th cj picture book awards 2009
pp. 28 | cm. 21 x 28 | June 2010 pp. 24 | cm. 10,7 x 21 accordion book
March 2009 for children 9 years and older
pp. 32 | cm. 24,3 x 30,6 | March 2008
stories of the visionary and the absurd
laughter and smiles | another point of view big questions
stories of the visionary and the absurd
“Fairytales exert an irresistible force of gravity Two naked bodies, one next to the other. Emotion
and hesitation, trembling and uncertainty in the Two extraordinary, visionary, surreal, subtly
on anyone who wants to tell children stories. ingenious stories from Fabian Negrin, who once
Fairytales carry an immortal narrative nucleus eyes, and hands. Mouth, breast, stomach. But feet,
legs, shoulders and neck, too. It’s a cliché that the again manages to astound us.
from one generation to the next, the origins of From a town in which the sky bursts with suns
which are lost in the darkness of time, and mixed roots of love should be sought in the heart. The
truth is, each part of our body becomes much more gone mad to an impenetrable forest where a
up with the very origin of mankind. We carry true Gypsy’s dream goes astray and invents the moon,
forms of prehistoric life within us. Trying to contain than a mere anatomical component when feelings
of love course through it. “A Thousand Days and a Night” accompanies us
them within the 160 characters of a text message to places where all is possible, even encounters
is a playful homage, as well as an attempt to help A three-metre-long concertina book. Page after
page, it reveals the bodies with painters like Rousseau the toll collector and
them along their journey into the future. With the musicians like Erik Satie.
hope that the fairytales will take us with them.” A of a boy and a girl. A poetic text accompanies the
lover as he discovers the body of his beloved, step Part comic book, part illustrated book, an amazing
fulminating anthology that brings together some voyage into the world of the imagination
of the most famous fairytales. It revisits them, after step. Only when fully opened does the book
reveal the image in its entirety, at almost three and fantasy.
with sarcasm and irony, in the light of a collective
imagination that’s as fervid as it is savvy and metres long: two young people lying down, hands
aware. interlaced, gazing into each other’s eyes.
An elegant, poetic book which tells youngsters
german and russian Rights Sold about love and eroticism, without censorship. A
hymn to the body as the location of love.
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