SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN AGED 9 AND OVER
“MY GRANDFATHER WAS A CHERRY TREE”
– Einaudi Children ” Stories and Rhymes ” 1998 –
– ” The golden shelf “, 1999 –
– Einaudi Children 2009
Illustrated by: Ananna and Elena Balbusso
“When I was four years old, I had four grandparents : two city grandparents and two country grandparents. The city ones were called Luigi and Antonietta and they looked exactly like the people living in the city. The country ones were called Ottaviano and Teodolinda and they didn’t look like any body else, not even their neighbours. ” This is the opening of a book telling us about an extraordinary grandfather and a cherry tree, about the goose Alfonsine and her husband Oreste, about grandmother Teodolinda and her ” soft ” things; and about a boy who doesn’t forget his ” mad” grandad who used to climb up the trees and who has made him happy so many times.
Prizes and Awards:
- Finalist Sardinia Prize, 1998 Olzai (Nu) – Italy.
- Prize Piero Manni, 1998 Calimera (Le) – Italy –
- Prize Piero Manni, 1998, Calimera (Le) – Italia
- Prize G. Giulitto, 1998 Bitritto (Ba) – Italy –
- Prize City of Penne, 1998 Penne (Pescara) – Italy –
- Prize Jury of Bancarellino, 1999 Pontremoli (Massa Carrara) – Italy –
- Children’s jury – “Pippi Calzelunghe” Prize, Casalecchio di Reno, 2000 (Bologna), – Italy.
- Prize Library of Massa Marittima, 2000 (Grosseto) – Italy.
- Prize The world saved by children” – Elsa Morante – 2000 Procida (Napoli) – Italy
- Finalist at “Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, 2000”. Book exibition in Frankfort, 2002 – Germany –
- Selected for the “Prix chronos de littèrature 2006”
- Selected for the “Prix Livre élu an Livradois Forez” France 2007
- Slovakia’s Prize “The Best Traslated book” 2008
Published in:
ITALY – SPAIN – GERMANY – JAPAN – NETHERLANDS – HUNGARY – COREA – HONH KONG – TAIWAN – LITHUANIA – THAILAND – NORWAY – FRANCE – BRAZIL – POLAND – SERBIA – CHINA – SLOVAKIA – RUSSIA – VIETNAM – ALBANIA – SHORTLY TURKE
Next editions: Lituania, Ucraina
