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Planet Earth is Calling Matt
Matt’s parents just had a revelation: he has what it takes to give a hand to the environment. With all the hands in the world, why does it have to be his? Indeed, the SOS Nature Park needs help: it is a wooded area so littered with rubbish that it would take the strength of a thousand people to clean it up. Be that…
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Little Footprints
The inhabitants of the clearing are very different from one another: in What a hurry! Koala spends all his time relaxing, while Weasel and Raccoon run back and forth the whole day. In You are too much! Elephant doesn’t fit anywhere, he is too big, too high, too slow… definitively, he is too much. Boar is confused, he can’t understand why…
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Wolf & Milo
Wolf and Milo are best friends, the kind with a capital F. Sometimes, however, it happens that they don’t fully understand each other, that they don’t feel included. Never mind! When there is true friendship, even the most difficult challenges can be overcome with a big smile. Together, Wolf and Milo will learn that there is always room for a…
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Extraordinary Myths
Have you ever used the word “extraordinary”? If so, you may know that it has many nuances: it can mean different, out of the ordinary… but also special, unique. Just like this journey through mythology that unravels the lesser-known pages of classical tradition. By reading this book, you will meet unusual versions of heroines and heroes, women and men, creatures and deities, who…
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20 Grams of Kindness
Squirrel is angry: seven nuts and three acorns have disappeared from his burrow. Was it Piglet? Piglet is angry too because someone trampled on his garden and ruined his carrots. Was it Mouse again? Even Mouse and Wolf look angry… what’s happening to everyone today? Oh no, Bear is also leaving! Where is he going? He’s just found something very…
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The Ugly-Wonder
Leo is a young model, beautiful, charming and vain: he is used to having thousands of followers on his social media and crowds of adoring girls wherever he goes. When he starts a new school, though, something weird happens: during a visit at the museum, a weird fish bites him and after that Leo develops some very peculiar superpowers: when…
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Igor
All he knows about himself is his name: Igor. He has been pensive for a few days. Could it be that he has never seen anyone who looks like him? Maybe it’s out there somewhere, and just needs to be found. Maybe it’s time to leave home and to go on a journey in search for a family. But, every time he thinks he has…
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Another Catastrophic Book by Matt
Matt could not have known that remote-controlled drones have a life of their own. He certainly could not have imagined that by pressing that button, Dad’s drone would rise five metres and then crash into his neighbour’s greenhouse. If Matt had imagined all this, however, this story would not exist. Once again Matt is grounded: his mother forces him to do charity work at…
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The First Disastrous Book by Matt
Matt is a 12-year-old with a keen tendency for trouble. This time he made a really big mess… But how could he have known that rockets, if triggered and positioned near bushes, can set them on fire? Just how? His parents decide to put him in detention and sentence him to a month of volunteering at an Elderly Centre. That is, a centre FULL…
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At Night
It’s a quiet evening, in a living room two children are playing on the carpet. Suddenly, one of them notices a small door behind the books on the shelves. Crossing it, he finds himself outside, in the garden of their house. A large snowy owl glides towards him and invites him to come on board, for a wonderful journey through…
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To Catch a Magic Frog
To catch a magic frog, you need someone to tell you how. You must hurry. You need a good pair of shoes, and a purple hat. (Everyone knows magic frogs like purple hats). To catch a magic frog, it’s a good idea to ask a friend for help… A touching and unconventional picture book, written by one of the most…
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Peggy Does Some Gardening
Today Peggy and her Mum go to the garden to take care of the plants. Peggy is determined to help her Mum do everything there is to do: plant the beans, water the seedlings, remove the weeds, taste the raspberries… “I’ll do it, I’ll do it!” she shouts every time. “For its vivid representation of two worlds, child and adult,…
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The Seesaw
A seesaw makes you want to play A pig makes you want to balance An Elvis makes you want to dance A crocodile makes you want to run… A hilarious picture book that makes us laugh and surprises us everytime we turn the page!
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Last Present
Mademoiselle Gelsomina and her niece have a problem: the aunt receives too many presents from a devoted admirer! So many that aunt and niece often have to set up a little street market to free up some space. The presents are of all types, paintings, maps and ornaments, but also carnivorous plants, a guard goose and some large herbivores! And…
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Imagine If
Little Panther has grown up and her curiosity about the world becomes curiosity towards the other puppies who inhabit the jungle. Thus begins the game of imagination: Imagine if… she could change her colour? Now she is grey and jumps with little monkey, then little panter turns yellow, white, brown, orange… Which animals will she imitate and play with? At…
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I’ll Be Waiting For You in Saint Something
Sometimes, it may happen that you have to move to a place that you did not know and you even did not want to know. This is what happened to Simone too, who in September arrives at a deserted village, where he will have to attend the high school. He knows nobody, his father is always at work, and his…
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Angels, Lizards, Children Everywhere
Angels, lizards, children everywhere! Children were seen running like lizards on the walls of the houses, up to the fourth floor. Lizards were seen rising on their hind legs and shouting tremendous threats with powerful voices, in perfect English. Old teacher Rosa Quercia was seen laughing from the window, and throwing pans. Midget Angels were seen swarming into one of…
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Herbarium of My Dreams
In this third and final volume of the Trilogy of Inner Journeys, Bimba Landmann takes us into the world of our dreams, explored as in a herbarium, in a fascinating metaphor between our inner life and the growth of the natural world. From the Forest of Night Dreams we move on to discover the Plants of Daydreaming and then to…
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Twenty-Four. Timeline
On Friday the 19th of May, at 11.56 a.m. in a secondary school in Bologna, a bomb goes off. It’s the worst terrorist attack in Italy’s history, inflicting an incurable wound on the heart of the city. The consequences are tragic. But… the attack never happened and this story actually begins on Thursday the 18th of May at 11.56 a.m.,…
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TWENTY-FOUR. TimeLoop
On Friday the 19th of May, at 11.56 a.m. in a secondary school in Bologna, a bomb goes off. It’s the worst terrorist attack in Italy’s history, inflicting an incurable wound on the heart of the city. The consequences are tragic. But… the attack never happened and this story actually begins on Thursday the 18th of May at 11.56 a.m.,…
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