It’s the colour of the light and the sun, it’s like gold, warm, rich and bright, the colour children like the most. This volume of PiPPo Colour series is dedicated to yellow. Valentina Zucchi and Sylvie Bello, at her debut, will make children discover those artworks where yellow stands out as utmost protagonist, through artists like Simone Martini, Artemisia Gentileschi, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Turner, Matisse and other masters.

Because it conveys peace and deep feelings, blue is the favorite colour of most human beings. It’s the colour of the sea and the sky, which is why it’s always been a symbol of spirituality and nobility. But blue is also the colour of melancholy and nighttime, the threshold of unknown, hidden issues. Valentina Zucchi and Viola Niccolai analyze it through artworks by Giotto, Dürer, Canaletto, Picasso, Kandinskij, Yves Klein and other masters. [Text in Italian]

Second issue of our PiNO collection about science and nature. Vagabonde!, by gardener and landscape architect Marianna Merisi, is a passionate journey into the world of the most common, but most interesting, plants: those that bravely grow and flourish even where we would never expect. We’ll be taught their extraordinary behaviour and how to look, discover, understand these living organisms, that remind us the intelligence and beauty of nature. [Text in Italian]

In all big cities, at dawn, millions of people wake up, have breakfast and get ready for work. The crocodile hero of this book is no exception. We follow him in his household stuff and outside. We walk by his side in the street, we get on the tube, look at shops’ windows, smell sweets and roasted chicken until… A compelling wordless story by Giovanna Zoboli, with illustrations by the extraordinary talented Mariachiara Di Giorgio. [Text in Italian]

It’s nighttime, mom and dad are gone. A little girl is at home, alone with her cat, and she can hear a storm coming. Her room is pitch dark. The cat gets closer and they listen to the wind in silence. Speaking to the cat, she grows braver. But when rain and thunders start banging on the roof, she wishes she was stronger. And suddenly the cat gets bigger and bigger until it turns into a majestic lion.

In any little thing, although unnoticed, there’s a secret life made of mysterious happenings, unknown languages and whispered stories. There are firefly-like lamps, flower-like umbrellas, watches with a heart of minutes, children made of sweet snow, sleepy books and more. The dreamy beauty of Spanish poet María José Ferrada’s verses shines through Gaia Stella’s bright illustrations. [Text in Italian]