Gioconda Belli and Alicia Baladan wonderfully rielaborate the legend of how the first laughter came into being. In a sort of eden made of a lush and mysterious tropical forest, the protagonists realize they are the first man and the first woman on earth and they start playing with the plants and the animals around them. A story about generosity and nature where, by means of marvelous words and images, everything becomes light, joy and colour. [Text in Italian]
A very silent boy. A curios girl. The classroom as a place where children’s thoughts, moods and feelings come up; where they experience solidarity, fear, discovery and doubt; where they start to learn and to love. These are the elements of the story by Silvia Vecchini and Antonio Sualzo, standing in between picture book and comic. A deep, simple gaze to the inner life of children, to their ability to overcome troubles, help each other, grow up.
Rosmarino receives a magic wand as a birthday present. What for a magic wand? She had wished roller skates but that’s forbidden to fairies. “What if you fall down and get nose-bleed?” Her mom says. “That’s not nice for a fairy”. Rosmarino would rather be a witch, fairies are just so boring. Will she become so? You’ll find out reading Rosmarino’s adventures though Carll Cneut stunning illustrations. [Text in Italian]
Wonderful gardens, palaces, castles, parks full of trees, shadows, fountains, little lakes: En plein air is a journey through the most enchanting historical gardens of Trentino, northern Italy. With text by Giulia Mirandola, a fine picture books specialist, and images by Andrea Serio, here at his debut.
Die Fischreise was written and illustrated by Tom Seidmann Freud, and published in 1923. It tells the dream of a child: riding on a goldfish horseback, he gets to an ideal, unknown city where children, its only inhabitants, welcome him warmly. The place is all harmony, beauty and fraternity: children passionately study and work and days go happily by. Written on the eve of tragic historical events, this book stands for a moving desire for a better future and a better world.
Being the third book of PiNO collection about Science and Nature, L'albero is a poetic and scientific exploration of the life of plants through images inspired on traditional botanical illustration, graphic representations, verses, a little dictionary and an observation lab. Different and complementary instruments to initiate children to the secrets of trees: leaves, fruits, roots, seeds, trunks, bark… The luminous texts by Silvana D’Angelo are illustrated by Sara Maragotto and Caterina Gabelli from Studio Fludd.
Chess, ball, jump rope, hide-and-seek, blindman’s-bluff: people have always played since far-away times, since when they used to drawn on cave walls, inventing wonderful ways to entertain themselves and learn the rules for living together through the pleasure of playing. This PiPPo volume was created in collaboration with Tocatì festival, which is dedicated to the art of entertainment. Young readers will discover traditional unknown games from very famous paintings. [Text in Italian]
A timeless love ties the lizard to the stone. She loves the sun; he loves quietness. He’s warm; she’s steady. She loves silence and she’s very fast. He is silent and still. Since unmemorable times, they were made for each other. Giovanna Zoboli and Massimo Caccia tell a subtle, minimal story that occurs every day, in any season, in any part of the world, celebrating the beauty of the natural world.
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You can read nature as if it were a tale. Verbs like to blossom, to sprout, to grow, to fruit, to wither, pace the story. Following a common thread, Antonella Abbatiello creates a sequence of primary images achieving the look of someone who is watching them for the fist time and reducing the great complexity of the world into fresh, bright shapes. A gallery of signs, volumes and colours that precisely describe the prodigy of nature. [Text in Italian]
The well known Sardinian legend of the magic goat who leads a shepherd boy to a treasure had a great influence on Maria Lai’s work. She rewrote it again and again, imagining a different ending. The story in this book comes from a contamination of many different versions and it’s a metaphor of the power of art. Along with the story, the illustrations by Gioia Marchegiani narrate the landscape and the culture of the island. [Text in Italian]