DEAR RACHEL… DEAR DENIS…
“DEAR RACHEL… DEAR DENIS…” Ed. EL “Letters and diaries”, 2004 Illustrated by: Costanza Favero “This is the report, made by Adalberto, Veronica, Ulrich, Valentina and Denis, of a holiday at the camping “Falling stars”. If you find it a bit confusing at first be patient. When you get together for the first time your ideas are never clear. On top of that take into consideration someone who plays vampire nightime, someone else puts nibbled cores all over the place and others get lost in the wood… Published in: Italy, Greece, Thailand...
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“AZZURRINA” Ed. Einaudi Children “The Golden Shelf”, 2004 Illustrated by: Octavia Monaco The beautiful and blond lady of the castle loves life and knows that her daughter, completely white and nearly transparent inspite of her name, has got the extraordinary gift of singing, she can talk with birds, flowers and tree leaves; unfortunately the prince warrior, husband and father, doesn’t appreciate his daughter’s gifts and he believes, on the contrary, that she is the source of the sharp and deep pain that makes him mistrustful, insensitive and cruel. The...
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“GORGIUS” El Edition, 2006 – illustrated by Gabriella Giandelli A summer with yellow snow, an uncultivated and negleted space, a stretch of asphalt “as empty as a desert” called square and a bulding that refills itself whit its inhabitants only in the evening. One day, under the only green bush of the area, Danilo, the chief character, find Gorgius. “Just imagine… It’s hard to describe, not becouse I don’t remember it, but because thinking over it after a long time it seems even more crazy… almost impossible… Yet it’s...
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“TWENTY… AND ONE MORE STORY” Ed. Einaudi Children “Golden shelf”, 2006 illustrated by: Donatella Caprana Riva Einaudi Children “Stories and Rhymes”, 2007 “Once upon a time there was a country town called “the uselesstolks” and in this town, used to live a man who would made kites for living. He used to make wonderful kites, of different and strange forms, that could move in the arm as they were alive. The children would watch the kites enchanted, they would dream about them in the night and they would have tantrums for days asking...
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“CAGLIOSTRO’S SEGRET” Edizione Giunti Junior Collana Le gru 2008 Illustrated by: Massimo Alfaioli “Ah the three layer-cake filled with custard and covered with cocoa! And the liquorice chocolates and the crunchy nut bonbon! All deliciousness, and many more Urbina and Olimpia used to talk about among themselves, with an inspired manner like two fans, as well as they talk about Olimpia’s favourite books placed in the yellow layer of the cake, the one that smells of vanilla custard. Cake?! Yes, you are right, the yellow layer of the cake, is the forth floor of the...
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