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The Mysteries of Mercurio 6 – Leonardo Da Vinci: The River of Time
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! Nina, Lori and Jamal are in Urbino, in the middle of the Renaissance, just when Leonardo Da Vinci has decided to place his genius at the…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 4 – Giotto: Rise Up to the Stars
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! ‘Where’s Mercurio got to?’ wonder Nina, Jamal and Lorenzo, worried. They’re outside the Scrovegni Chapel, wearing leggings and ankle boots. The magical blackbird, who has just…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 5 – Artemisia Gentileschi: The Light of the Muses
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! A thunder, a gust of wind, the blackbird Mercurio spreads its wings and Nina, Jamal and Lori find themselves in the Eternal City: Rome. But… in…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 3 – Caravaggio: Love Wins All
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! To Nina, Caravaggio is the greatest painter of all. And she can hardly believe her eyes when she, Lori and Jamal come across the great maestro…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 2 – Michelangelo: The Prisoner of Stone
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! Who is trying to frame Michelangelo to stop him from finishing his David? In Renaissance Florence, Nina, Lorenzo and Jamal find themselves in the service of…
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The Cricketts – I Am All Alone, I Come From Far Away
Kindness is the absolute protagonist of this 4-books series by legendary Italian picture book artist Nicoletta Costa: meet the Crickett family as they set out on amazing adventures, get rescued by friendly strangers, welcome new residents in their happy community. Little Ciacco, together with his family, has left to go live in another country, where dad will find a new…
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The Cricketts – Franz Ant Makes New Friends
Kindness is the absolute protagonist of this 4-books series by legendary Italian picture book artist Nicoletta Costa: meet the Crickett family as they set out on amazing adventures, get rescued by friendly strangers, welcome new residents in their happy community. Franz Ant has to leave because his home has been destroyed by a storm. After long days of walking, he…
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The Crickett Family Goes on a Trip
Kindness is the absolute protagonist of this 4-books series by legendary Italian picture book artist Nicoletta Costa: meet the Crickett family as they set out on amazing adventures, get rescued by friendly strangers, welcome new residents in their happy community. The Crickett family takes a trip to the river. The little crickets have a great time. But then, big clouds…
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The Crickett Family
Kindness is the absolute protagonist of this 4-books series by legendary Italian picture book artist Nicoletta Costa: meet the Crickett family as they set out on amazing adventures, get rescued by friendly strangers, welcome new residents in their happy community. The Crickett family lives in an apartment building with kind and friendly neighbours who are always willing to help. Dad…
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Oops! The Importance of Making Mistakes (2nd title: Geographical Discoveries)
A 4-books series to learn about the greatest human achievements… which actually happened because of a mistake someone made! Human history is filled with remarkable discoveries that often arise from unexpected circumstances. These surprises spark wonder and have allowed humanity to evolve, grow, travel, and invent over the centuries. Many times, what we discover is not what we were initially…
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Oops! The Importance of Making Mistakes (1st title: Inventions)
A 4-books series to learn about the greatest human achievements… which actually happened because of a mistake someone made! Human history is filled with remarkable discoveries that often arise from unexpected circumstances. These surprises spark wonder and have allowed humanity to evolve, grow, travel, and invent over the centuries. Many times, what we discover is not what we were initially…
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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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Peggy Can Find Anything
At Peggy’s house, things often get misplaced and go missing. Today everyone is looking for something they have lost: Mum has lost her car keys, Dad can’t find his watch, Peggy’s brothers have lost a shoe and a teddy bear… But they are very lucky to have Peggy: she is very good at finding things!
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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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The Incredible Secret Diaries
Five great historical characters – Leonardo Da Vinci, W.A. Mozart, Raffaello, Dante Alighieri, Frida Kahlo – open up the pages of their hilarious secret diaries: their personal and artistic stories are narrated with a lot of humour, so that we can discover their indisputable genius, together with their little idiosyncrasies and the funny aspects of their character that make us realize how they were after all just men…
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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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The Modern Age
In what way is the Modern Age ‘modern’? Is it equally so for men and women? By entering the meanders of archives, we will discover the countless traces left by the women of those centuries. Some very famous, others known only to historians. Through the sources that collect or express women’s voices and their personalities, we will explore what their lives were like, what ordinary…
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The Middle Age
Women in the Middle Ages were not on the battlefields, which made them scarcely visible in an era punctuated by wars. Chronicles and literature of the time recount the exploits of kings, emperors, knights, saints, popes and warriors, as if they were the only subjects that moved human history and imagination. So, battles are the only way to enter history? Fortunately, no. Let’s follow in…
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The Ancient Age in Greece and Rome
Can one tell the history of Greek and Roman civilisation by talking only about men, and famous men at that? For centuries it has been so, but today, as detectives reopening a cold case, we can question the official versions and look at the past with new eyes, including the rest of humanity of that world: women, children, slaves, foreigners. In doing so, we…
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River Valley Civilisations
Agatha Christie, writer and archaeologist by passion, will accompany children on a journey to the origins of ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian, Indian and Chinese civilisations. Together we will discover how the most ancient inscriptions were deciphered and which women made their mark on the historical studies of the river civilisations. The ancient documents, written by the men of the past and studied by the men…
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