Chenxino is a young and talented author and illustrator, debuting with this delicate story about a boy and a girl. The day the boy moves in front of her she writes on her diary: "Today I fell in love". Since then, what the reader follows is a moving sequence of the strategies she adopts to catch his attention. We’ll see her turning into a bird and sing on a tree, turning into a pig to have breakfast with him, and into a dinosaur to protect him at night. Forty-eight pages of pure wonder, in Italian and Chinese (the author's mother tongue), to describe the complexity of feelings.

Acerbo sarai tu is a new poetry collection by Silvia Vecchini, beautifully illustrated by Francesco Chiacchio. The poems focus on the hard time of growing up, on wonder, pain, boredom, contradictions, on how exciting is to make discoveries and how mature is to look at ourselves and others from different perspectives. These are all recurring topics of Silvia Vecchini’s poetry, here enriched by stunning drawings by Francesco Chiacchio, featuring in our catalogue for the first time.
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Once upon a time in Persia, there was a girl who had never looked at herself in the mirror, so she did not know what she looked like. Her beauty attracts a man who wants to marry her. But, as in the best legends, a mysterious beginning leads to a series of misfortunes until she runs away and he leaves in desperate pursuit of her. Text by Sahar Doustar, who was born in Iran but moved to Italy, and illustrations by Daniela Tieni, guide readers towards a moving ending. [Text in Italian]

Some days just everything goes wrong. Some days you have the feeling something serious is going to happen and nothing will ever be the same again. The story I’m about to tell begins on a day like this.

Children ask crazy questions. It’s their wish to experience the world, and to play with it, that pushes them to wonder about its mysteries. Mysteries that adults don’t see anymore, as they grew up thinking that a sofa is a sofa, toothpaste is toothpaste, and there’s no reason to count the raisins in a muësli bowl or to do somersaults until your head spins. After the successful As strong as a bear, Katrin Stangl presents her very funny new book about the extraordinary, dazzling logic of children, who turn reality upside down and make it anew. [Text in Italian]

Christmas is coming and no one wants to be caught unprepared by the event. A list is needed! Two, in fact: one for the cat and one for the missing mouse. Everyone writes what should never be missed at a Christmas party. And of course they end up fighting, but the devoted readers of their stories know the way they are: this is why they shouldn’t miss the last book of the most surreal trilogy (The missing mouse, The holidays of the missing mouse) of all times. [Text in Italian]

What happens when a boy doesn’t want to get up, wash, get dressed, have breakfast in a hurry to go to school? Imagination takes over as he observes the cosmic movement of dust, lemons, watermelons, colours, stones, kites, elephants, hats… Published for the first time in 1960, these verses written by Sandol Stoddard and illustrated by Ivan Chermayeff, a world renowned graphic designer, also illustrator of Sun, moon, star, are wonderfully translated by Bruno Tognolini.  [Text in Italian]

It's midnight, temperature’s going down. The little boy wakes up. His mother, who had been looking after him, has fallen asleep. The boy hears faint voices coming from under his pillow: some tiny creatures called ant-fairies came to visit his mom after a longtime. They brought the ring she gave them back then. And when the mother wakes up, her son is recovered and that strange ring reminds her of something ... Maybe tonight another magic will happen!
A little treasure by the award-winning Korean author Shin Sun-Mi. [Text in Italian]

If your parents are ice cream makers you have many advantages but some misfortune too, because summer is not holiday time, it's  working season. This is why Janna is sent to a summer camp. You'll have a great time! There will be so many children! There are many children indeed: 700, to be precise. As for the rest, life in the summer camp is a hilarious sequence of oddities: sunbathing healing treatments; long or short praying sessions according to different times of the day; flag-raising; uniforms; wool bathing suits; huge dorms; the same food every day; souvenir shops and so on.

Gina is good at telling stories. She tells them to her children in their winter nights: stories of when she was a child. Like that time when she was eight and walked all the way to Florence across the Apennines with her mom, who had found her a job. A great adventure in hard times, with bombing going on, German soldiers, and the risk of getting lost. Antonella Toffolo made a comic out of this story she’d heard from her mother: the epic of a childhood seen through the sharp, poetic touch of her art style. [Text in Italian]