Beniamino Sidoti has been working between books and games for thirty years: he was one of the founders of Lucca Games, one of the largest gaming event in the world, he is a writer of children’s books and also a radio journalist.
He holds workshops and teaching courses around Italy, and works as an author and editor for many Italian publishers: he is the author of two encyclopaedias and about 60 fiction and non-fiction books, translated into twenty languages.
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10 Pebbles in the Boots
Peter is walking happily in his new boots, until some pebbles get stuck inside them. What starts as just a bother, soon becomes an opportunity to count and play. There are 10 pebbles: they have different shapes, different structure, different size. Peter counts them, observes them, looks at them, plays with them. Then he stuffs them into his backpack and…
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Vincent and Puss in Boots
The first title of Fairy Tales in Art series: the lives and works of famous artists retold through popular fairy tales. Everyone knows the story of Puss in Boots, the clever cat that turned a poor villager into a king. But in this retelling by popular children’s writer Beniamino Sidoti, the young man is no less than Vincent van Gogh,…
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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…
