ANGELS
“ANGELS” Einaudi Children ” The golden shelf “, 1999 ” Stories and Rhymes “, 2002 Illustrated by: Fausto Bianchi …Fifteen stories light, unexpected, surprising as feathers lost in flight. There is the stone angel “with no wings and with a cut off finger “, standing still on the rose window of a cathedral; the guard angel who leaves the garden door unattended to follow the little acrobat of a circus; the angel painted on a picture kept in a museum… Angels who tell children aged 8 or over about beauty, sympathy, cruelty, poetry:...
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“OFELIA , BE CAREFUL” Ed. Einaudi Children “Stories and Rhymes ” 2001 Illustrated by: Giulia Orecchia This book is dedicated to all the “Young” who don’t want to surrender to grown-ups’abuses. They will certainly like the heroic fight of the Olli family, father, mother and Giasone against the extremely arrogant and triumphant Bulgdozer. But readers will also get to know a girl with very dangerous blue eyes and a factotum driver who is called Carmine – sole and drive an oil-tanker car… (Not...
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“THE STRAY DOGS” EL Edition ” Frontiers ” 1999 A short story, deliberately short, I think. And about the stream of memory. It concerns the synthetic,articulate reconstruction of a longed trip which turns into tragedy… It’s a dramatic, hard book, as is its language which, without falling into the common and trite youth slang, has its own dry, rough, almost “irritating” quality. A language, by the other hand, skillful in its pauses and in some just hinted but very vivid described digressions… It’s a painful book but honest, I think....
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“THE MAN WHO GREW COMETS” 1st Edition: EL Edition ” The treasure” 2002 2nd Edition: Einaudi Children Ed. “Stories and Rhymes”, 2004 Illustrated by: Germano Ovani “That night the sky was full of stars. They were so many, hiding the dark under the veil of light, as if the moon was there. ” The stars can see me” thought Arno, his face pressed against the window-pane… The stars are the eyes of the sky – Myriam was saying – the moon is its mouth and the sun is its crown. And the comets ? What were the comets...
Read MoreTHE DREAM OF CRISTINA, BELGIOIOSO’S PRINCESS
“THE DREAM OF CRISTINA, BELGIOIOSO’S PRINCESS” Giunti publishers junior Illustrated by: Grazia Nidasio Reissue the previous title “Cristina Belgioioso, an Italian princess” “It was still dark, the wet and cold darkness of early December, when the coach left the stables and, going slowly up the path, stopped in front of the large staircase. The coachman pulled on the reins, He rebuked he horses for their impatient neighs and he got ready for the wait. He knew it might be long. The facade of the country house was plunged into darkness, only one window was...
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