Since the ancient times we've heard of peculiar messengers who travel fast and far: Hermes for the Greeks; Mercury for the Romans; the incredibly fast Pheidippides who arrived from Marathon to Athe
La grande fiaba intrecciata is a collection of fairy tales by Beatrice Solinas Donghi, first published fifty years ago.
It's a summer-night and a firefly is wandering through the empty streets of Milan.
Paris in 1903 was a very modern city and the most popular among artists: that year Charlotte Perriand was born.
La Befana is a character of Italian folklore, an old lady or a witch who brings candies (when they're good) or charcoal (when they're bad) to children, around Christmas time.
This is the story of a granddaughter and a grandmother tied by a very special bond. A garden, a hospital, a lost set of keys, a pair of rain boots, a magic dog, a talking mole...
Once upon a time there was a king who was crying. He had lost his best friend. [...] For seven days the king, Gilgamesh was his name, watched over his friend, Enkidu.
Three children in a wild garden find the house of the grumpy old man who cut down their beloved tree.
After In spiaggia (At the beach) and Al mercato (At the market), we follow our little Eva on a trip to the museum, with her teachers and classmates.
It's the Sixties, the Space Race: before the first man lands on the moon, dogs, monkeys, a rabbit, forty mice, two rats, even fruit flies were sent to the space on board of rockets.