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Salamander
Young Europa Anguissola learns about art and life amid paintbrushes, games and hidden dragons: painting is the magic that reveals the world’s secrets. Cremona, Italy, 1556. Europa Anguissola is about ten years old. One quiet autumn day, during an outing in the woods with her sisters, she glimpses an extraordinary creature resembling a tiny dragon: a salamander. Fascinated by this…
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What Is the Sky?
A collection of universal questions, blending philosophy and humour, designed to spark a search for meaning and to fire the imagination. In this luminous and original picture book, Guia Risari gathers twenty-four universal questions — the kind children ask naturally and adults often struggle to answer. Her responses are playful, unexpected, and poetic: trees bloom because they are incorrigible optimists;…
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The Time of the Foxes – Book 2
A story of magic, love and personal growth, which takes us back to the atmospheres of the novels of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones. Unforgettable characters, an irresistible and iconic fox king, a plot full of twists. Marian’s life has changed drastically with Aleister by her side. However, as she prepares to introduce him to her family, Marian is…
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The King of the Foxes – Book 1
A story of magic, love and personal growth, which takes us back to the atmospheres of the novels of Jane Austen and Diana Wynne Jones. Unforgettable characters, an irresistible and iconic fox king, a plot full of twists. On the day of her eighteenth birthday, Marian has very little to celebrate: her mother has promised her hand in marriage to…
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Wanted
A witty and insightful picture book that turns family conflicts into a series of hilarious “classified ads.” “Wanted: a mum who never gets angry.” “Looking for: a quiet and obedient daughter.” “Found: a terrible mum — free to anyone who will take her.” Through a clever back-and-forth of ads posted on the walls of the house, a mother and daughter…
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Smash the Boxes!
How do stereotypes and prejudice work? What impact do they have on people’s lives? How can we deconstruct them and change our mindset? This book explores stereotypes and prejudice across different areas: body, gender, education, immigration, religion, identity, sexual orientation, age, and new technologies. Understanding how our mind reacts when faced with diversity can change the actions and behaviors that lead…
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A luminous and poetic bedtime picture book — an intimate declaration of love that tells every child the world is wide with possibilities, and you can be more than one thing at once. How does the world appear to a newborn human baby? Sometimes it seems like a perfectly ordered grid, but it can also be a tangled, impenetrable hedge.…
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The Book Without a Protagonist
A witty and philosophical picture book about identity, storytelling, and the magic that begins when someone decides to read. Edoardo, the supposed protagonist of this book, feels crushed by the responsibility of being the main character — so he steps out of the story and leaves. Desperate, the book sets off through the Land of Fairy Tales in search of…
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Monsieur Erik
A poetic and whimsical portrait of an eccentric musician whose quiet solitude and inner music reveal the beauty of being different. Erik is an odd one: always dressed in the same way, he lives in a small flat called “the closet”, full of um- brellas that he fills with sketches and words. Erik is a melancholic one, but he knows…
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What Is a Syndrome?
A visually striking and thought-provoking journey, revealing a complex, shared human experience of difference, struggle, and inclusion. What is a Syndrome? A microcosm? A crisis? Something random? A fight? An attack? A common history? What else? Whatever it is, it’s something that concerns all of us. This picture book doesn’t give an answer but provides some interesting food for thought…
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Hi, I Am Robot
A curious little robot, a big journey into the wonders of science and friendship The true and extraordinary story of a small robot, heir to the long tradition of ancient automata and forerunner of a new generation of curious, thinking machines. Equipped with a computer for a brain, this little robot can see in the dark, help with homework, tidy…
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Hi, I Am Micro
The epic story of life on Earth—told by one of its smallest but most powerful inhabitants. Micro, an invisible microbe, tells his own life story across billions of years. Born on the early Earth, he survives volcanoes, oceans, and mass extinctions. Microbe is the witness to the grand history of life: the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere thanks to…
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Illusions
“I saw it with my own eyes!” – we say and the argument is over. Our eyes – what could be more reliable? But some- times the eye does not see exactly what actually exists, or it sees some- thing that is not there at all. Some- times we encounter illusions – tricks that our eyes and brain perform over…
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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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Mouse Encounters of the Third Kind
A mouse, a monolith, and a mission to discover the truth about alien life — right beneath the Old Apple Tree. Urth is the last-born, smallest mouse in a family of muscle-bound fruit gatherers. He dreams of something more—something bigger than the life the colony has mapped out for him. When a strange black object appears in the forest and…
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In The Pard’s Shadow
Some creatures are meant to stay hidden. Some truths are not. Five teens. One summer. A forest full of secrets. They came to study nature. No one expected to find claw marks. Or silence. Or fear. Locals whisper about the “pard”—a creature that doesn’t exist. At least, that’s what they’re told. But something is watching. And someone is hiding the truth. As the forest closes in,…
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The Coming of The Bear
Some animals are born to be free. Some people learn to be. A story of courage, connection, and a bear’s journey home. Karhu is a bear who doesn’t know how to be wild. Viola and Kevin are two teens sent to help set him free. At first, it’s just a summer project: hike, take notes, check the collar. But then the…
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When I’m a Caveman
“What will you do when you grow up?” they ask me every time. “You can do this and that, there’s plenty of choice! The manager, the principal, or the administrator. The magistrate, the judge, or the mega-director.” But I will do something completely different, let me say it loud and clear! I will do the best job that exists in…
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Escape From Paradise
Genoa, the late 1950s. Lilli is the fifth of seven sisters, but she couldn’t be more different from them. A tomboy who doesn’t like following the rules, she feels suffocated inside the walls of her home. Everything changes the day Lilli meets Ida, a petty thief in the service of a mysterious woman named Salomè, and her gang of Strays. For…
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