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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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Mammoth Mom
A sweet, heart-melting picture book about… a very special Mom. She is just so… big! She can reach everywhere, no matter how high. It is just so lovely to comb her hair. Her embrace is the sweetest and softest in the world! A tender story to celebrate children’s wonder for all the amazing things their Moms can do!
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Lola and I
A special friendship, made up of little things: the walks in the park, the big horse chestnut, Mario’s meat balls, the trips to the sea. And then Michelangelo the painter, tobogganing in the mountains, watching spy movies while eating pizza on the sofa… Only at the end of the narration we understand who was really speaking, and who Lola really is. The touching…
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Horace Copeless the Hopeless
Horace’s family has just moved to a new town, so he will have to make new friends. But his new classmates make fun of him because he wears glasses and is very shy. His parents are too busy to really listen to him. And, worst of all, his beloved Grandma has just died. But she also left a very special…
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Oscar the Guardian Cat
Oscar lives at Hope House, a big place with many rooms surrounded by trees, together with many grandpas and grandmas, Doctor Goodhelp and Dolores the nurse. Between incursions in the park and expeditions in the dungeons, there is no time to get bored. But Oscar is not an ordinary cat: he is a “Guardian Cat”. Oscar knows when he is…
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Birds in the Hair
Sophie spends a lots of time on her own. One day she wakes up because of a loud chirping noise around her. She looks in the mirror: she has hundreds of birds in her hair! The birds chirp louder and louder, she cannot hear her piano, or even her own thoughts anymore. But when she meets a girl with hundreds…
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How Big Is an Elephant?
Did you know an elephant is as big as 7 polar bears? And that it takes 4 lions to make a polar bear? And that a lion is as big as 3 alligators? An elegantly illustrated picture book to play with numbers and sizes.
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Youssef’s Dream
In the Country where two children, Youssef and Maryam, live suddenly a war breaks out. Maryam must follow her Mum on a cargo ship and leave her best friend Youssef. After that, Youssef can only draw a caravel on the wall of his home: it is the ship of discoveries, he was told at school, and one day he will…
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Spiky
Spiky lives in a black black wood. He is all covered in spines. He is the most terrifying and evil creature in the forest. One day, though, his spines begin to fall one after the other and soon Spiky finds himself as soft and pink as a marshmallow. What will he do now that he’s not scary anymore? An exhilarating…
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Funfair
There is a secret Funfair that appears at night in some children’s houses. Does it sound like a dream? Actually it is a nightmare. Its carousels are the metaphores of domestic violence: the distressing wait for a fight, peaks of screams and descents into silence. Day-time life, at school, flows normally, but appearances are deceptive. How can you get out…
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Mr Moustache’s Amazing Machines
A strange salesman has arrived to town with amazing household appliances… powered by disgusting things! The Booger-Baker turns boogers into delicious cakes; with poo you can make wonderful presents, while farts turn into the sweetest perfumes… Everybody wants one of his machines! But nobody read a warning written in tiny print… After a while, all things transformed will revert to…
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In the Whale’s Belly
It’s not easy when you are a kid and you got to go to school wearing a jacket you don’t like and a ripped tracksuit, your parents are separated, your mother always looks sad. But what would you do if one day your Mum didn’t come back home and you had to move on somehow on your own, while trying…
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Davì
A tall teenager is crossing the town, he has a green mohican, is wearing black clothes and is carrying a yellow flower… In each chapter the point of view switches from his thoughts (his love for books, his crush for a young girl, his struggle between being totally free and having roots) and the standpoint of the people who see him…
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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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Like a Tree
A poetic symphony about life. A gallery of evocative metaphores, a tree and other natural elements giving shape to the actions that make the life of every living creature.
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The X Family
At the age of 13, after his parents have been put under arrest, Michael starts his new life. Some very special people will join him: Clara and Franco, social workers; Mrs Guerra, an elderly lady; a gay couple, his new foster dads; Zoe, a true friend; his biological parents, who can still give him much. This is his X family, a mathematical variable in…
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Try and Say Abracadabra!
All the little birds have learnt to fly. All but one: little Owl just doesn’t seem to get it! “It’s easy” Turtle says “You just need to say Abracadabra”. Little Owl tries, but OOOPS! He falls to the ground. “That’s because you need to have your eyes opened AND say Abracadabra” Mouse states. Still, little Owl fails. “You need to…
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Who Will It Be?
Who will this creature, who is forming, be? If gills appear, does it mean that it is a fish? If it has webbed feet, will it be a duck? A biologist and a refined artist tell us the most fascinating true story: about the way everyone of us, before birth, re-lives the history of all life on earth. Based on the latest…
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