Summer has arrived, and the ice cream cart with it. There's a flea market in the village square. Someone has organized a birthday party and Daniela is wandering around with a big parcel under her arm: who will open it? A silent book about seasons in the city. In her Wimmelbuch series, the renown German illustrator Susanne Berner, Hans Christian Andersen Award winner in 2016, brings readers for a stroll in the same street but in different times of the day and of the year. A glimpse of urban life, bustling with people, plants, animals, activities, weird stuff.

Spring is coming. Ina and Jonas want to go play ball in the park; Manfred meets Elke and Lenzo, Susanne darts around on her scooter and someone throws a banana peel in the sidewalk. A silent book about seasons in the city. In her Wimmelbuch series, the renown German illustrator Susanne Berner, Hans Christian Andersen Award winner in 2016, brings readers for a stroll in the same street but in different times of the day and of the year. A glimpse of urban life, bustling with people, plants, animals, activities, weird stuff. 

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]