Chiara Valentina Segré was born in 1982 and lives in Milan. PhD in molecular oncology, she works in science communication. She published around 35 picture books and novels for children and received many awards, including the selection for IBBY Collection of Oustanding Books for Young People with Disabilites for Lola and I.
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The Great Mountain
Little Bear dreams of climbing the Great Mountain to see the sea. Everyone says it is too far away, too steep, too difficult for someone like him. So he waits, listening to the wind and wondering if the right moment will ever come. When he finally sets out, the journey proves harder than expected. The mountain is dark, the path…
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The Tree, the Cloud and the Little Girl
It’s late at night, the moon is shining and the cicadas are singing: and I cannot sleep. My brother’s bed is empty, because he’s sleeping in hospital tonight. And the Cloud is back on my head. A little girl, her grandmother’s house by the lake, a big old tree that will have to be cut down because it is too…
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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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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…
