fiabe e leggende

On a cold autumn evening, a baby is born in a village. He is as tiny as a bean, with wrinkled skin and a voice like a kitten's.

Maria Carla works at the Lost Property Office’s. Efficient and impeccable, every morning she meets strange and desperate characters who come to her in need of help.

Once upon a time, there was a gloomy, dreary kingdom where the inhabitants spent their days in silence and sorrow.

The author and bookseller Valentina Pellizzoni, in love with the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, decides to rewrite a selection among the lesser-known ones.

A tale from Ancient Greece about a touching friendship between a little girl and a bear.

La grande fiaba intrecciata is a collection of fairy tales by Beatrice Solinas Donghi, first published fifty years ago.

Grande scrittrice e studiosa di fiabe, nel 1976 Beatrice Solinas Donghi pubblicò un importante studio sulle fiabe: La fiaba come racconto che oggi, per la sua modernità e il suo spessore,

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.

One day Zeus, disguised as an ordinary man, went with his son to the land of Phrygia. They went begging for food and a place to stay, but out of thousand doors they knocked at, no one opened.

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.