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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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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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Imagine a World
Every day, in the four corners of the world, there are women and men who roll up their sleeves to study, experiment and spread their ideas. They sow, plant, build, protect and invent solutions. What happens next? Forests grow back, fish reproduce, people are less hungry or less hot in cities, poverty decreases, boys and girls go to school, clean…
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The Whale’s Breath
The Earth, perhaps, should be called the Sea. The deep sea still holds many secrets. The whale is a symbol of these mysteries, its immeasurable size has fascinated mankind since the dawn of time. Exploited as a raw material, decimated by over a century of hunting, today the whale begins to reveal its characteristics as an extraordinary being, halfway between…
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The Wrapper
That day Gerardo didn’t even notice. He unwrapped the popsicle he was eating and simply dropped the paper on the ground… From a very small action, catastrophic consequences can arise! In this sparkling picture book we discover what can happen due to a simple piece of paper thrown on the ground: screams, accusations, demonstrations, accidents, strikes, energy crises, conflicts between…
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Kiran’s Journey
The night has long begun, but Kiran can’t sleep. Tomorrow is the big day, and his heart is like a boat jumping on the waves of the sea. So, Kiran gets out of bed and goes to the window. There’s a round moon that lights the way. And on the street there is a dog that walks alongside the walls,…
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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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The Band-Aid Box
I had a box full of band-aids. A square, tin one. I got it for my birthday because I like band-aids. I like them colorful, but a bit see-through. They hide the scratch I’ve got and at the same time tell me exactly where it is. I always want to know where my scratches are. Each scratch is a mark…
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The Jump
Jumping into a pool might seem easy peasy but it can become terrifying as soon as you face it from the pool-board edge perspective… Time stops when you are about to dive. Will our hero be bold enough to jump? From an internationally acclaimed author and illustrator, an exhilarating picture book about that moment when you are too afraid to dive!…
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The Hamster Invasion
When your parents don’t let you keep pets, there’s only one thing you can do: secretly get some hamsters. Then you can feed them, build them a house, play with them, sew clothes for them, give them sunglasses, and, why not, even a car. The only problem is that if your hamsters are a couple, you could very soon find…
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Little Sailing Manual
If it’s the first time you go by sea, you should be guided by an experienced sailor. Someone like Aldo, who knows that the first thing to do when sailing is to set a destination. A destination that can be reached with unexpected events and ingenuity, through difficulties and cooperation. Aldo says you will always get somewhere. A sea story…
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Before you cut down a tree
A passionate and poetic defense of every single tree, an invitation not to forget that trees are the refuge for our hide-and-seek games, the home of birds, the voice of the wind, the sheeps’ umbrella… They are our sweetest memories, and above all they are our breath and our future.
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Artists’ Houses for Sale
How would the catalogue of a real estate agency specialising in the houses of famous artists look like? Ericavale Morello, an art teacher and talented illustrator, guides us in an exhilarating and fascinating game to discover 25 houses that belonged to excellent names. A journey to explore art through houses, which becomes a game to find out who the owners…
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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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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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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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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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