A collection of poems about the little things that make a childhood in the countryside: animals, plants, a walk in the wild, silence, the building of a nest, and much more. Anything can trigger thoughts and feelings, memories and imagination, and ultimately the experience of wonder.

La grande fiaba intrecciata is a collection of fairy tales by Beatrice Solinas Donghi, first published fifty years ago. Readers who enjoyed Fiabe incatenate will find here the same thrilling rhythm, the masterful intertwined plots, the elegance of scenes and characters. Illustrations by Irene Rinaldi bring a lively, bright touch.

It's a summer-night and a firefly is wandering through the empty streets of Milan. From Duomo to other iconic spots, the tiny protagonist becomes one with the lamp posts along a stream, with the tram's lights, with a cat's eyes and so on, like a series of movie stills that go towards a truly poetic ending. Paolo Ventura blends the language of art, photography and cinema with eclectic talent.

In spring branches blossom, crickets sing, ladybirds fly, frogs croak... In autumn leaves fly, the moon shines, squirrels stockpile, the fog comes... In primavera In autunno is the fifth board-book of the successful series built around opposites, by Giovanna Zoboli and Philip Giordano, to tell seasons, the passing of time, and to observe microscopic details of the world.

Last time we left Fox and Chick mingling with kangaroos, searching for hammers and organizing surprise parties. In the first of these new stories, Chick climbs on top of a tree, but he doesn’t know how to get down; in the second, he's eagerly waiting for the snow to fall; in the last one, Fox gives him a special gift. The adventures of our fellows, candidates for the Nobel prize of friendship, continue.

Dopo il successo de L’anima smarrita, torna in libreria, con un nuovo sorprendente racconto illustrato, una coppia d’eccezione: Olga Tokarczuk, Premio Nobel 2018, e Joanna Concejo. Protagonista della storia è Il signor Mirabile, un uomo che non ama passare inosservato e più di se stesso ama la propria immagine: i suoi lineamenti saltano subito all’occhio, tutti lo riconoscono e lo salutano cordialmente.

È un’infanzia poco convenzionale e di gusto neorealista, raccontata con umorismo e affetto, quella che Antonio Ferrara offre ai lettori in questo nuovo volume della collana Anni in tasca, dedicata a narrazioni autobiografiche di infanzia e adolescenza. Ogni episodio si inanella all’altro dalla nascita del protagonista fino alla maggiore età con un leitmotiv di fondo: una passione invincibile per la lettura e la scrittura.

La cosa nera è la storia di un’amicizia tra una bambina e uno strano essere fatto di buio dai grandi occhi scuri. Lui non parla, ma si fa capire benissimo, ed è invisibile a tutti fuorché a lei. Giorno dopo giorno, il timore lascia spazio alla fiducia e la bambina si farà condurre dalla creatura in un posto segreto, dove insieme si daranno alla pazza gioia. Con un testo stringato ed efficace e una elegante sequenza di illustrazioni in bianco e nero, questo albo crea una narrazione onirica e avventurosa, che celebra il mistero di un incontro felice.

Bees have extraordinary skills. They live in big groups where everyone performs a specific task with great efficiency. Cooperation is the basis of their life. This is why they are called "social insects" and the bee colony a "super-organism". The most important thing they do for our planet is pollination: the transfer of pollen from one flower to another. The relation between bees and flowers is a story of a great friendship that began millions of years ago, and from which the world originated as it is today.

A place without patterns is like a sky without clouds, or like a field of untouched snow. It's a perfectly smooth surface: a rare thing. Everywhere in nature, uniformity is interrupted by stripes, spots, nets, branches and rings: patterns that depend on forces such as gravity or heat, and unfold through regular pace. Federica Buglioni invites readers to observe the forms of nature in order to understand their functioning, and illustrations by Luogo Comune show the visual codes of our marvelous universe.