TWENTY… AND ONE MORE STORY
“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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“MISTRAL” Romanzo Giunti Editore 2008 “Suddenly you starter to yell like damned, louder than wind I swear! Then I thought you must be called Mistral, because you are just like it” Like the wind, little Mistral lives alone in the shade of a lighthouse, between the steep creeps of his wild island. No one but the sea loneliness and the thousand of segrets floating in the weaves, is able to control his personality, strong-willed but perpetually lacerated by doubts and uncertainties. This is until he meets Cloe, a little foreigner who, with her open-mindedness, leads him...
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“THE SECRET LOVE” A book of rare beauty, written in cultured language, “The secret Love” narrates about Dante’s life but, above all, introduces us to Gemma Donati, the poet’s wife. Angela Nanetti wrote it in a state of grace, with passion, involving readers in a journey that goes through Dante’s childhood, adolescence and maturity, enriched by Roberto Innocenti’s drawings…. ““Dear Madam, here is my review. As far as I am concerned this book has arrived in Paris, New York, Saint Petersburg, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Seattle, Athens, and many other cities. Many Italian speaking...
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“THE RAIN COMPANY” 1ST Ed. Giunti Firenze , Firenze “Le Gru” 2009 Illustrated by Francesco Mattioli “I really thought I would never see you again, yes, I thought so. On the contrary … Guess what my friends? we’re all toghether again!”. The words “my friends” had slipped from his tongue before he could help it, but now it was too late. But this wasn’t the only extraordinary thing of the night: in addiction it happened that, while they were close to the wood, suddenly the moon got dark and started to rain” The story about...
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“Death to Garibaldi” 1° ed. Giunti Publishers “Extra” 2011-07-26 “Melania is nearly 14 years old; she has got a mother who has been left for another woman and a younger brother who is much more relaxed than she is about this new situation. She just can’t cope. When, in a hot week of august, she has to accompany her father, who is a journalist, in a long journey looking for material for a book on “Garibaldi’s history”, she just can’t resist: she uses every possible opposition to “HIM” (that is what she call him)…..”...
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