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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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Can I Come In?
An improvised hut, built with sheets and clothespins, cushions gathered from all over the house, chairs and sofas: a refuge, an inaccessible fort. Everyone collaborates to build it, and the space is reorganised according to everyone’s diversity. The hut becomes the space of imagination and creativity. When an adult wishes to enter the game, they have to ask for permission.…
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Bears Going Up
It’s morning: a bear wakes up, sees a paper plane out of the window and ventures out to chase it. Like in a movie shot, we begin to follow the bear, with an uphill movement that accompanies us to discover the awakening of an entire town, with many different characters engaged in their daily routine, but also a roller-coaster in…
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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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Turn the Page
A fast-paced and surprising game, full of discoveries at every turn of the page. In fact, the game of turning the page invites us to immerse ourselves in a fantastic world, where from time to time we are catapulted into a different reality: from the baby born in a garden to flying hanging from the neck of a little bird,…
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Encyclopedia of My Imaginary Friends
An imaginary friend is an experience that most children know about. They can be fantastic or realistic creatures, human or animal, objects… They are an expression of creativity, a gym for socialization skills, a stimulus to growth. Bimba Landmann accompanies us to discover the world of imaginary friends: from the infinite forms they can take to the creative process which…
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Imagine!
Only the genius of Bruno Tognolini, the most beloved children’s poet in Italy today, could create these “rhymes of wishes to shout together”: a song that gives voice to the wishes and hopes of all children. From the biggest dreams of peace, solidarity between peoples, the protection of nature, to the smallest and most intimate dreams, which are no less…
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Mickey Messy Monkey
Mickey is about to go lion hunting, when Dad comes into his room. Dad can’t even find Mickey’s bed: all around it is a mess. A real mess! “You can’t go out till you clean your room!” Dad shouts. Mickey loves his room like that. It is his jungle. His secret jungle. He can jump on the bed, then fall…
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Giulietta and Federico
Both Cico and Pallina always have the same dream: every night they see two characters, Giulietta and Federico, embarking on daring journeys, losing each other and getting back together, discovering incredible landscapes. But a woman named Giulietta and a man named Federico really existed. They lived in the last century, the twentieth century, the century of Cinema. And they met…
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Maps of My Emotions
A boy is leaving for a journey that will take him to explore far away places. The only words describing these places, in this almostwordless book, are those of the maps that he draws. Maps that are rich in fantastic and evocative details, like the Great Lake of Ideas or the Forest of Good Omens in the Land of Hope,…
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Shhh
Is it a wordless book? Almost, but not completely: the only words in this picture book are, in fact, onomatopoeias! Page after page, we follow a child during his/her daily routine: waking up in the morning, having breakfast, going to school, and then playing during school break, taking a nap after lunch, going to the swimming pool and back home……
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My Magic
All that is on the Earth, and the Earth too, the Moon and every planet to the end of the universe, is my magic. In the morning, the sun rises to warm me up. The cow makes my milk. The baker bakes the bread for me. A highly poetic picture book about the feeling of omnipotence that is typical of every…
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Whatabore!
Whatabore is skinny and pasty, and never has fun. Never. His favourite colour is pale grey, his favourite dish is plain pasta, and when he has some spare time, he loves staring off into space. He gets bored in every moment of the year, whatever the weather, whatever position. He is so good at getting bored, that one day he locks himself in…
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