Mani che salutano e mani che accarezzano. Mani allegre e mani pensierose. Mani che danzano e mani che preparano la cena. Mani che giocano, mani che lavorano, mani che rubano e mani che se ne stanno senza fare niente. Le mani, come ha scritto il grande poeta tedesco Rilke, sono animate da una sotterranea corrente di vita. Proprio come noi, possiedono desideri, sentimenti, capricci e manie personali. Sono belle e misteriose. E, nel loro linguaggio segreto, a ogni istante, parlano di noi, di quello che siamo, proviamo e pensiamo.

Sometimes we remain breathless in front of the birthday cake, paralized by the importance of the moment. Written and illustrated to transform this emotional moment into a wirlwind of courage, this book shows how the strongest storms and the gentlest breezes coexist inside us. A book to read aloud, all together, to make any birthday party unforgettable.

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Every day the whole world wakes up and washes itself: animals, people, even cars and streets are swept by a flow of water and soap. It’s the happy wave that runs through these pages, sweeping away everything with its pressing pace, to reach the kids who do not love water…

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Flies fallen in the fruit cocktail, naughty peanuts pulling a milkshake around, an apple custard who dreams of being a sailing ship. Ten sandwiches evading from the pic-nic basket. A rice pudding on a cruise ship and a Coca Cola who falls in love with a pizza. The magnificent vocabulary of kitchen and cooking sings the verses of the human comedy and its social rituals.

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Words and images for a year of poetry: Giusi Quarenghi, one of the best Italian authors for children, and award-winning illustrator Chiara Carrer follow discreetly the flowings of days and seasons and the constant changing of natural and intimate landscapes. A delicate but strong book, written and illustrated to fascinate as well as to teach the simplest and deepest beauty of living in touch with the secret truth of things.

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In the Animal’s Supermarket you can find only natural, healthy food. And the beasts are very picky, when it comes to eating. This book is a colourful and unconventional guide to a correct diet, where children are invited to consider the difference between what animals eat and what they are offered in shops and supermarkets. A book with a game, to entertain children while teaching them the principles of good nutrition.

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A creative couple, Copywriter Giuseppe Mazza and Art Director Anna Cairanti, make their debut with a rhymed album that tells with lightness, enchantment and irony how a book is made, following the tradition of authors for children previously working in the commercial communication world (Lionni, Munari, Dr. Seuss, Carle, Mari). Verses and images disclose, in perfect balance, that the result of impossible math formulas is sometimes poetry.

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Fogs and crystal skies, breezes and storms, starry frost and quiet moonlit nights. A meteorological gallery of clear poetic splendor will show you the invisible nothings of the air and how it becomes the theatre of the most fascinating spectacle in the world: the beauty of the changeable and iridescent creation, made of grand phenomena and minimal movement, endless silences and noisy rumbles, slow rhythms and the most rapid of melodies. Similar, in its incessant change, to the emotional states that accompany the stream of life.

A lullaby full of stars for a lamb whom, fascinated by a star, loses her trail and gets lost in the woods. Around her, the darkness is scary. But, all of a sudden, something comes on, illuminating her heart with relief: the beautiful eyes of a wolf cub, filled with dreams, fill the lonely night with the warmth of companionship. A minimal story told with infinite tenderness and deep sweetness by the verses of Eleonora Bellini, perfectly matched by the Massimo Caccia's essential signs and precise brush strokes.

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