Francesco Muzzopappa is one of the best-known and most appreciated Italian authors and copywriters. He has published middle-grade and adult novels, translated into some foreign languages (French, English, Turkish, Albanian). Together with illustrator Sio he was the creator of the 20-million-views YouTube series “Fiabe brevi che finiscono malissimo”.
In 2023 he received Premio Guareschi to the career, the most important Italian award for humoristic writers.
‘With an effervescent writing style, capable of capturing the contradictions of our society with his playful and ironic gaze, Francesco Muzzopappa has been able to recount these last years as no one else. He has done so with humour and spirit, tackling different genres, from short stories to novels. The jury, among the many proposals, unanimously decided to award a young humourist, a sign of hope and continuity towards a way of looking at and narrating the world that Giovannino Guareschi would certainly have appreciated.’ – Jury of Premio Guareschi
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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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The Ugly-Wonder
Leo is a young model, beautiful, charming and vain: he is used to having thousands of followers on his social media and crowds of adoring girls wherever he goes. When he starts a new school, though, something weird happens: during a visit at the museum, a weird fish bites him and after that Leo develops some very peculiar superpowers: when…
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Another Catastrophic Book by Matt
Matt could not have known that remote-controlled drones have a life of their own. He certainly could not have imagined that by pressing that button, Dad’s drone would rise five metres and then crash into his neighbour’s greenhouse. If Matt had imagined all this, however, this story would not exist. Once again Matt is grounded: his mother forces him to do charity work at…
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The First Disastrous Book by Matt
Matt is a 12-year-old with a keen tendency for trouble. This time he made a really big mess… But how could he have known that rockets, if triggered and positioned near bushes, can set them on fire? Just how? His parents decide to put him in detention and sentence him to a month of volunteering at an Elderly Centre. That is, a centre FULL…
