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Edizioni EL Einaudi Ragazzi Emme Edizioni ON THE WINGS OF MISS FRISBY THE HAWK When Miss Frisby turns up at What a Tommaso Percivale Christian is eleven years old and James’s parents’ home, everyone is he has a problem: he is afraid of taken aback by her eccentric ways, FASTER THAN THE WIND although she has excellent refer- people. One day he meets Bruno, There was a time when competitive cycling was for coura- a master falconer who gives him ences. The new governess assigns Good Idea! James weird tasks including how geous men, dauntless heroes. A time when to race you needed a peregrine hawk as a gift. to climb a tree, how to calculate Inventions that Changed the World Christian calls it Sapphire and so age 12+, 208 pages to be men of steel. But then a woman comes along on a begins a new adventure, thanks the temperature by listening to the FROM A TO Z What led 18 inventors in History to come up with precisely that rickety bike and the athletic training of a seamstress; she song of the cicadas and how to rec- also to the friendship that grows particular idea? What were they doing, what were they thinking, A collection of stories and nursery rhymes by Gianni up between Christian and Ginny, ognize a dwarf from the fairy world. is Alfonsina Strada. She races faster and faster, she flies. what were they saying in that decisive moment when a spark went Rodari, the great wizard of words, the greatest Ital- Bruno’s daughter. Everything For the boy who up until then has Passion and the desire to race is not enough. But Alfonsina seems to be going great when, lived under the hyper-protective off in their brain that changed everything? Ranging over a period ian writer of children’s stories of the Twentieth Cen- is like the wind that knows no laws or limits and she races during a storm, Sapphire disap- wings of his parents, without of more than two thousand years, we see, among other things, how tury who, with his imagination and intelligence has pears. This will be the real test friends or adventures, there begins the first computer, the telephone, the radio have been invented, but as long as she has strength in her body. And when she a magical summer made up of always charmed adults too. The stories, fables and that Christian has to face in order also the train, the automobile, the bicycle and much more besides. races, she races to win. Cinzia Capitanio to overcome his fears and reac- Tiziana Merani exciting discoveries and battles In few words nursery rhymes included in this book are taken from A story that talks about sport, courage, tenacity and the age 10+, 192 pages quire his self-confidence. age 7+, 120 pages with himself. his most famous collections. The criterion for selection search for freedom. GETTING TO LOVE THE by Christian Hill, ill. by G. Ferrario, 7+, 192 pages is a purely alphabetic game, without any attempt to Crime and Punishment ­e Late Mattia Pascal GREAT CLASSICS OF create a logical thread but simply playing with letters, Dostoyevsky + Rossi Pirandello + Morosinotto LITERATURE EVEN BE commas, apostrophes and brackets, a criterion that we illustrations by Chiara Armellini, I, CLEOPATRA BEHIND THE WALLS OF FORE READING THEM flatter ourselves would have pleased Rodari himself. age 5+, 128 pages The young Cleopatra grows up amidst the scents of ANCIENT CITIES Igor De Amicis, Paola Luciani The new collection In the royal gardens and the Short stories set in the blood of palace plots. Hot- great cities of the past DOWN THE MINE few words, aims to tempered and determined, that saw the birth and provide a simple but by the age of eighteen she growth of great peo- gripping entry into the The Finest Stories and is queen of Egypt which ples and civilizations: Lea’s Journey - by Guia Risari, ill. by Iacopo Bruno, age 11+, 224 pages she rules wisely. She can A novel that talks about adventure, integration, friend- Alexandria in Egypt, age 12+, 192 pages great works of world seduce the most powerful ship and first love against the backdrop of the dramatic Knossos, Athens, Rome, literature. men of the time but only YOUNG ADULTS Rhymes of Gianni Rodari Jerusalem, Varanasi, incident at Marcinelle, the village in Belgium, on 8th one of them will win her In just a hundred pages Machu Picchu: the whole piano concerto Short or very short stories, rhymes and nursery rhymes selected from heart. With Julius Caesar of civilization in an his- August 1956, which left a lasting mark on the history of written in up-to-date everything seems possible: torical map of the world Fifteen year old Vanessa takes part in a piano competition and meets Kai the rich output of Rodari and collected here in 5 sections divided ac- love, the future, a great Italian emigration. language and in a seen through the eyes who is the same age. From the very start the two become rivals but also cording to theme. Unforgettable characters, stories outside of time, Empire in the East and precise and sparkling Sabina Colloredo Stefano Bordiglioni of the children who are friends, drawing strength from each other to face the trials of a life in verses sculpted out of words and kaleidoscopic images on the thread one in the West. But the the protagonists of these style, some famous gods have another destiny constant change. Everything around Vanessa is changing (her best friend of Gianni Rodari’s magical words. Dazzling little texts that highlight age 9+, 200 pages age 7+, 136 pages stories. ­e Picture of Dorian Gray Pride and Prejudice in store for them. and her piano teacher leave the city, her mother gets married again), only contemporary authors the wit, the vivid imagination, the lightness of touch and the humor of Wilde + Sgardoli Austen + Colloredo Giuliana Rotondi Sabina Colloredo Daniele Aristarco Kai remains. The two get to know themselves deep down and help each have taken on the task Come and Rodari whose stories continue to entertain old and young readers and age 9+, 128 pages age 7+, 160 pages age 11+, 216 pages preserve intact his gift for making them enjoy themselves. other out. After all, that’s what acting in concert means: competing and of retelling some of the visit our THAT’S DELICIOUS! GREEK MYTHS SHAKESPEARE IN SHORTS struggling. Competing with each other and struggling together against most beautiful stories Illustrations by Elisa Paganelli, 4+, 320 pages the perils of the world. A novel that hinges on one of the greatest passions When has the first pizza been cooked? A collection of the principal Greek Exactly four hundred years ago William of our literary herit- stand! Who invented risotto and parmesan? myths recounted for very young read- Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of of young people: music. FABLES IN WI-FI The history of Italian delicacies, explain- ers. Zeus, Athena, Ulysses, Prometheus, all time, author of immortal verses and Antonio Ferrara age, introducing read- ing how and when they came about. An Aphrodite, Hercules and the other pro- stories, died. “Shakespeare in Shorts” by Maria Chiara Duca, age 13+, 144 pages ers to their journey to- Hall 5.0 D 16 instructive and entertaining book that tagonists of the eighteen myths in the brings to life ten of these tales in a fresh Aesop, today teaches children about history starting book are seen engaged in the actions of HARRY wards fundamental and immediate language. Edizioni EL from what they have on their plate. their everyday life. The novelized biography of Harry Houdini, the greatest magi- imperfections texts in literature. Stories cian and master of escapism, told in his own words. In 78 short stories (some as short as tweets), the eternal Glenda is fifteen years old, she is an only child and she has a disfiguring age 12+, 144 pages Harry cannot bear to be locked up: when still a child, no genre of the fable measures itself against the modern mark on her face. She doesn’t remember how she got it, not even her best Einaudi Ragazzi At the dawn of time one can catch him and close him up. He begins by escaping on the Pillow world. friend Jane knows. Glenda meets Julian on holiday. He has something from the chicken coop his father shut him up in, then as he Now, after the modern fables written by the great authors Stories of ancient peoples that makes him different from the others too and many years before he 60 short stories intended to make bedtime a happy time. Stories NEW grows, he manages to get free from the tightest knots, con- spent some time away from home. Julian is brilliant, full of curiosity, stub- Emme Edizioni about animals and fairies, mummies and daddies, games and chil- of the last century, it is time for digital fables, in large part straints and handcuffs of all kinds; he will do it under water, born and cheerful but there is a mystery in his past. Glenda and Julian collection dren. Little adventures to make the little ones smile and to with new themes and characters, or with old ones revo- Starting from an actual historical event, these are stories of Madame Bovary Zeno’s Conscience encased in ice, hanging head down, in front of thousands spend a week together, then they say goodbye and leave it at that. She goes make the intimacy of the bedtime story a special occasion GOOD lutionized and adapted to the times or else derived from the adventures from the world of antiquity, whose protago- Flaubert + Baccalario Svevo + Capriolo of people: he will use his teeth and nails, astuteness and back home and meets up again with her friends and ex-boyfriend Marco.
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