Orecchio Acerbo Rights List Spring 2021
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orecchio acerbo editore Foreign rights catalog Winner of the BoP · Best Children’s PuBlisher of the Year 2017, euroPe Spring 2021 picture books daybrEak NEW by Daniel Fehr illustrations Elena Rotondo for children 4 years and older pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 21 ISBN 9788832070651 | July 2021 today NEW by Daniel Fehr big quEstioNs | grEat advENturEs illustrations Simone Rea WaitiNg for Walt for children 4 years and older by Daniel Fehr The story is about a young boy and his father. pp. 64 | cm. 17 x 24 illustrations Maja Celjia In the middle of the night they leave their house. ISBN 9788832070590 | April 2021 for children 5 years and older For the boy it is the first time that he leaves home pp. 32 | cm. 24 x 32 | May 2020 at this time of the night when normally uNdEr thE gazE of timE | rEcouNtiNg thE prEsENt he is asleep. As they walk through the forest storiEs of thE visioNary aNd thE absurd laughtEr aNd smilEs the flashlight of the boy “turns on” part A father who is leaving. Two brothers. A long wait. of the vegetation and at the same time the rest But together it is easier, together it is easy disappear. He turns off the flashlight and “turns on” to be strong. The older brother reads books Two kids are waiting for Walt. But who is Walt? all his senses: he experiences the darkness, to the younger one who can’t read yet but can And, if Walt was there with them, what would the sounds of the forest, the sound of his father, at least choose the book; then they go together they all do together? They would have a lot the roughness of the ground, the smells… on a secret mission: is every mission of spies of fun, because when he is there he always He dares not ask for the space and time secret? Then one goes to play football, the other has crazy ideas. that separate them from their destination, not even one stays home and “read” books watching This is the beginning of a imaginary adventure what their destination is. the pictures, as mom does with the magazines plunged in a swarm of weird and bizarre A walk to exalt and celebrate all five senses but on Sunday. And then the spites, the jealousy, characters, some invented, others already seen also the value of waiting, surprise, solitude, the fights, the solitude. And then together again… and known. Yes, because this story contains respect for the space of others. An essential book that gently shows us how the a lot of references, from the most obvious Elena Rotondo is a skilful newcomer illustrator others are important, for growing up, to know in the title Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney, who was able to capture the delicacy of this text ourselves, to take our measures, to make alliances, to the Walt’s stories characters, from The Cat and with her style she perfectly caught the to feel strong, to live. in the Hat, to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland atmosphere described by the text. Simone Rea realized the images of this book and to The Chronicles of Narnia… between March and April 2020, day and night, All references that the little reader can take or not KOREAN AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE RIGHTS SOLD during the lockdown: a window, always the same without affecting the force of the narration. Original text: English but each time unexpected, which reflects An ode to the imagination and to the superpower the stories of those who live there. And Daniel Fehr that only children have: that of inventing stories has “built” a text on these images, fully grasping and plunge into adventures starting from nothing. its essence: a diary without days told The illustrator, Maja Celija, must have kept this by the youngest brother, made of a time that super power considering how much she has is fluid and difficult to measure, made of thoughts, had fun in giving shape and colour of relations with others, of discoveries, of life. to this surprising imaginative journey! Original text: English TURKISH RIGHTS SOLD Original text: English hoW to gEt out of hErE aNd if yEs, WhEN? hoW to rEad a book by Daniel Fehr by Daniel Fehr illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello tricliNio aNd thE bEautiful dorotEa for children 5 years and older thE WhitE ravENs 2018 pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 33 | November 2019 by Jorge Ibargüengoitia “soligatto” aWard 2019 illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello laughtEr aNd smilEs for children 3 years and older for children 6 years and older pp. 28 | cm. 23 x 33 | April 2018 pp. 44 | cm. 21,2 x 33,8 | March 2019 The second book by the explosive couple Fehr- aNothEr poiNt of viEW | laughtEr aNd smilEs big quEstioNs | laughtEr aNd smilEs Quarello. This time the little readers shall help the two protagonists –always Hansel and Gretel- to find out how to get out of the book. And they have Reading the book seems easy, but it isn’t! Triclinio has four sisters, but no friends; thanks to to do it following suggestions and directions of the Especially when you realize that the people drawn his comical name everybody makes fun of him weird characters they will come across: leaping on the page don’t stay where the pencil has left at school. It falls to Triclinio, the only son in the from one page to another, the two dive into the them but drift around in the white space family, to accompany his sisters when they go dense and often ironic scenarios drawn by the of the paper and assume strange poses, depending out with their boyfriends, happy and diverting talented Quarello. on how you hold the book. And so the two themselves no end. But not for long: a telegram But the scenarios and the characters seem unfortunate Hänsel and Gretel appear upside down announces the arrival of a cousin, the Beautiful familiar… Of course, they are all intruders, and old Baba Jaga’s hut has capsized. Dorotea. Greeted by all the men with open mouths, “escaped” from eleven of the best known tales. Worse still when the sea on which Ahab navigates she unsettles the whole town and above all else However, the titles of these tales will only be in pursuit of Moby Dick begins to spill on the heads the lives of Triclinio and his sisters. Until one night revealed at the “end”, when the two have managed of the children and the witch. Little serves Triclinio discovers the secret of her beauty: her to get out of the book. the well meant advices to the reader: even the poor opulent platinum exuberance is nothing but a wig - A “leaper” adventure, a reading not at all linear, emperor, naked as he is in the famous tale, Dorotea is completely bald! definitely exciting and -who knows?- maybe never- ends up with his legs in the air. A funny and definitely politically incorrect tale, ending… Spins, somersaults, pirouettes. Whether by one of the most sharp and ironic Mexican author. the images nor the words keep still on the pages. TURKISH RIGHTS SOLD And you can’t follow them unless you keep turning frENch rights sold Original text: English the book around. Original text: Spanish A book to make your head spin! GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, TURKISH, Simplified CHINESE, GREEK AND KOREAN RIGHTS SOLD Original text: English bogEymaN is lookiNg for a housE by Maurizio A. C. Quarello “primo voto” aWard 2006 childrEN’s fictioN for children 3 years and older fraNtz aNd thE golEm pp. 28 | cm. 19 x 19 | September 2005 by Irène Cohen-Janca OVERCOMINg fEar | aNothEr poiNt of viEW ’45 illustrations Maurizio A. C. Quarello by Maurizio A. C. Quarello for children 8 years and older pp. 48 | cm. 21 x 27 | March 2016 Where the devil have the bogeyman, the ogre, aNdErsEN aWard 2018 bEst picturE book and the wolf man gone? And what’s happened for children 11 years and older STORIEs of thE VISIONary aNd thE absurd | mEmory to bugaboo? But there are certain wilderness pp. 96 | cm. 21 x 30 | March 2017 reserves -the dreams of children- where you can That night, back in 1892, Frantz, a boy from still find them. mEmory | War aNd pEacE Prague, moves silently in the dark. He has a secret: Some fleeting signs of one little bugaboo, Ababù, he’s going to a forbidden place, the attic of the have been found under the beds of various It is Christmas 1944. The partisans have set up an synagogue of the city, where the remains of the children. Nope, it’s not the work of anxious mothers ambush for an SS truck, and a woman is waiting Golem are kept, the giant made of clay that nobody or of grumpy fathers. It’s him, Ababù, forever for the return of her man. At daybreak she sees could win or stop and that back in the Middle Age, obliged to change his lodgings: if it’s not one thing him coming from a hill and welcomes him with protected the jews from Prague. The access to the it’s another, nightmares, sickening attention... And an embrace. But the partisan must hurriedly hide attic is forbidden to everybody, under penalty then, well, he’s looking for Amì, his favourite child. in the attic as two German soldiers approach the of madness and death, but Frantz can’t resist. Ah yes, children grow fond of their fears, but farmhouse in search of food.