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2 BOMPIANI CHILDREN & YA Mario Bellini Design Explained to Children IL DESIGN SPIEGATO AI BAMBINI

One of the most renowned Italian mind come from? How to look at the world designers explains to little readers his way to make it better through everyday objects? of looking at nature and taking ideas and Mario Bellini answers these questions in projects from there. his first book for children: a travel into his world through photographs and drawings How to draw a chair? And why to draw a to catch the beauty and essential of those chair? Where do ideas feeding a designer’s everyday objects we don’t even stop to contemplate.

MARIO BELLINI was born in Milan in 1935. After his bachelor in architecture, he started working as a designer in 1960s. Designer-in-chief for Olivetti, he designed the first personal computer in the world. He worked for Renault, Cassina, B&B, Flou, Vitra and Kartell and received eight times the Compasso d’Oro Prize.

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BOMPIANI CHILDREN Pages: 32 RIGHTS LIST & YA Publication: October 2018 Price: e 15,00 73 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Chiara Carminati & YA Chiara Carminati Out of Focus Travel, Verse FUORI FUOCO VIAGGIA VERSO

1914-1918. The story of a family told by a the bombings, she and her sister will roam A collection of poems aimed to teenagers everyone has been a teen once, and still bright young girl. Talking about war from the countryside looking for a grandmother illustrated by Pia Valentinis. is, as we may have never got out of that the viewpoint of one who doesn’t make it that they had never met before. Through building process of ourselves. To speak the voice of Jole – a penetrating, vivid first To put together teens and poetry: this is about fears and anxieties, desires and “When war broke out we were all pleased”. person narrator – their experiences are the challenge Chiara Carminati confronts delusions, anger and absent-mindedness Jolanda known as Jole was already working those of all the women who stay out of with Pia Valentinis, an illustrator she has through poems and images means to at the spinning-wheel at the age of thirteen the line of fire, far from the front, blurred, already worked many times with. A special create an unusual book, demanding to be during the summer of 1914. It didn’t take almost invisible, while History proceeds, book is born out of it, addressing a selected read many times and to be let resonate in her long to understand and suffer for the ruthlessly. Thirteen narrated images, audience but aiming to a larger one: silence. consequences of a conflict that sends the like photos missing from a family album, men away and leaves the women alone. punctuate a narration based on diaries, Separated from her mother, traumatised by testimonies, reports and documents.

CHIARA CARMINATI PIA VALENTINIS is the author of stories, poems and plays for children and and images. Among her books L’estate dei segreti (Einaudi Ragazzi), born in Udine, lives now in Cagliari, Sardinia. She won many prizes youngsters. She holds workshops and meetings to promote reading Rime chiaroscure (with Bruno Tognolini) and Mare (Rizzoli), Parto for her work as an illustrator. Among her works, Raccontare gli in libraries, schools and bookshops. Specialised in the didactics of (Panini), L’ultima fuga di Bach (rueBallu) and the handbooks Fare alberi (Rizzoli), Ferriera (Cononino Press) and some biographies poetry, she gives courses for teachers and librarians, in Italy and poesia (Mondadori) and Perlaparola. Bambini e ragazzi nelle stanze for RueBallu. abroad. With the musicians of Linea Armonica she has realised della poesia (Equilibri). In 2012 she received the Andersen Prize as performances of poetry and narrative that combine words, music Best Author. Her website is www.parolematte.it.

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ORBIL PRIZE (INDEPENDENT CHILDREN’S BOOKSELLERS PRIZE) 2015 SPECIAL ANDERSEN PRIZE 2015 ALVARO-BIGIARETTI PRIZE 2015 LAURA ORVIETO PRIZE 2015 STREGA RAGAZZI PRIZE 2016

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BOMPIANI Pages: 208 BOMPIANI Pages: 160 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2014 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2018 Price: e 12,00 Price: e 11,,00 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Nicola Cinquetti & YA Matteo Corradini The Giro of 1944 If the Night Has a Heart IL GIRO DEL ‘44 SE LA NOTTE HA CUORE

A novel about bikes and war: a city war. Four years later he and his family An altar boy in the grip of doubt and a dances and chases in the dark, the two boy, an evacuated family, a gang of are displaced in the countryside where majorette who doesn’t speak. The escape kids go in search of a series of messiahs, countryside kids. there’s nothing to do. Luckily he got his from a tedious summer school camp, an people who can save us. However it’s bike. But that gets stolen by a mean girl adventure in one night. not so easy to distinguish friend from foe Giro d’Italia, June 1940. Martino follows who looks like the boss of a local gang. at night. Rodento, Mazurka, the creepy the tour with his grandpa and his best Without stopping dreaming about his Codini Donna is the name with which Barbara Zagaglia, Asmodeo the dog, the friend: they all support Gino Bartali own Giro d’Italia, Martino will get closer the protagonist of this story introduces delicate Ortenzia... Who are they? Whose but there’s a young man who seems to to this strange girl, experience death and himself to the world. Dressed as an side are they on? threaten him, Fausto Coppi, who’s going war and live some of the darkest pages of altar boy, he decides to run away from Perhaps it’s all just a nightmare, a to win his first tour. Martino, though, Italian history. Nicola Cinquetti wrote a the summer school camp he is being hallucination. But Andra can finally face has nothing to cheer for, because the day strong novel about war and life. confined to during a big party he has no the man who took away her voice and after the end of the Giro Italy enters the wish to attend. His accomplice is Andra, her dreams, and Codini can speak to his who doesn’t speak and wears a majorette father, at last. The rising new day won’t costume. The night is long and populated necessarily be better, but will be different by bizarre encounters. Amid nocturnal for sure.

NICOLA CINQUETTI MATTEO CORRADINI is a poet and writer. He teaches Philosophy in Verona. With was born in 1975. He is a Hebraist and a writer. He won 2018 Ultimo venne il verme (Bompiani) he was finalist at the Andersen Award, and has edited the latest Italian version Strega Ragazzi Prize. of The Diary of Anna Frank, published by Rizzoli. Among his literary works, La repubblica delle farfalle, a story set in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

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SHORTLISTED AT THE 2017 STREGA RAGAZZI PRIZE WITH ULTIMO VENNE IL VERME

BOMPIANI Pages: 208 BOMPIANI Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2019 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2020 Price: e 13,00 Price: e 13,00 CHILDREN & YA Carlo Collodi & Lorenzo Mattotti The Adventures of Pinocchio

The most beloved classic of Italian alive and must face many difficulties in children’s literature illustrated order to become a real boy seems to find in by one of the most important the illustrator’s work an ideal mirror. What contemporary artists. comes from this exceptional encounter is an artist’s book that breathes both with the Lorenzo Mattotti has been working for ambiguous and phantasmagorical spirit ages around one of the most famous and aim of Collodi and with Mattotti’s – or characters of world literature: Pinocchio. rather Mattotti’s Collodi’s – vision. The tale of the wooden puppet who comes

CARLO COLLODI LORENZO MATTOTTI (1826-1890), pen name of Carlo Lorenzini, was the author is one of the most important contemporary illustrators. He of many books for children, but his fame is bound to his was born in Brescia in 1954 but lives and works in Paris. His masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, unanimously work has been released to widespread acclaim from critics regarded as one of the most important novels of 19th century and readers since 1970s. In 1983 he founded, together with Italian literature. other artists, the Valvoline group that marked a turning point in contemporary graphic novel production worldwide. He was awarded the Bratislava Grand Prix, one of the most important prizes for children’s literature.

“With Pinocchio I started from my own traditional pencil drawings. Then I had to go further. And I asked myself many questions in order to try and face Pinocchio with other techniques, with different signs, with new forms. As one’s thought is made visible by one’s sign, when you choose it you’re actually saying: ‘That’s what I think, that’s how I think’: a sign is like a word.” Lorenzo Mattotti

BOMPIANI CHILDREN Pages: 296 Rights: Alferj e Prestia Literary BOMPIANI RIGHTS LIST & YA Publication: March 2019 Agency RIGHTS LIST Price: e 35,00 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Paolo Di Paolo & YA Paolo Di Paolo The Flying Cow Daddy Gugol LA MUCCA VOLANTE PAPÀ GUGOL

From the author of Mandami tanta vita, that same evening, in the pouring rain, By the author of La mucca volante, don’t waste time answering, because they shortlisted for the 2013 armed with a torch and escorted by his shortlisted for the Strega Ragazzi Prize, don’t usually know the answer. They just dog Macchia, he goes back to school a book about a child wondering about the say: Gugol it! Thus, even a child knows A cow swollen up like a balloon, the and discovers a cow blown up like a world surrounding him and looking for how to surf the net. Paolo Di Paolo tells mysterious disappearance of an elderly balloon. Is it dead? The next day the cow answers at all costs. the story of a fatherless child, who has schoolmistress: a light-hearted, poetic tale isn’t there anymore. Where’s it gone? thousands of questions and nobody to about the weight of (white) lies This mystery runs parallel with another Grown-ups are distracted and careless. If answer them. mystery – the disappearance of dear a curious child asks them something they A corner of the schoolyard has been Mistress Pompelmo some years earlier. A marked off by a strip of red and white whole band of kids is eager to understand plastic. And the teacher forbids the why grown-ups go to so much trouble to children to go outside during breaktime. hide truth. Leonardo is determined to investigate:

PAOLO DI PAOLO born in Rome in 1983, works as a journalist, critic and writer. He is the curator of Indro Montanelli’s works and letters. Among his books, the novels Dove eravate tutti, Mandami tanta vita, Una storia quasi solo d’amore and La mucca volante.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA RAGAZZI With poetical irony Di Paolo depicts PRIZE 2016 relationships between parents too busy to answer kids’ questions and kids looking Subtle and pensive. for answers that don’t come from the “La Lettura” Internet only. “la Repubblica” The rare opportunity to savour a children’s tale conceived in childhood. Paola Capriolo, “Il Corriere della Sera”

A heartwarming story. “la Repubblica”

BOMPIANI Pages: 96 BOMPIANI Pages: 96 RIGHTS LIST Publication: September 2014 RIGHTS LIST Publication: April 2017 Price: e 11,00 Price: e 9,00 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Luca Doninelli & YA , Eugenio Carmi The Detective Wickson Alieni Three Tales TRE CASI PER L’ISPETTORE WICKSON ALIENI TRE RACCONTI

The investigations of a detective so banal man, and Roger T.L.L., the man with Now in paperback. Three stories for handed Martian. A pompous emperor as to be invisible. But... 364 teeth, one for each day of the year readers of all ages resulting from the who insists on bringing civilization (almost). Chief inspector Frank Fellikke, creative meeting of a writer and a painter. to a small, innocent, happy planet. Wickson Alieni is an ordinary detective, with his one and only hair named Filippo, Three stories told by Umberto Eco and so ordinary that nobody sees him. This counts on his cunning. Who stole the Melancholic atoms encased into a bomb illustrated by Eugenio Carmi, aimed to could look like a flaw, but is his greatest clouds? the herrings? five p.m.? We don’t and a general who wants war at any cost. kids and adults as well. power: without being noticed he can solve know yet, but Wickson will find out. Three suspicious cosmonauts and a six- a lot of cases, expecially those involving Maybe. wicked Milton Bobbitt, the pear-headed

LUCA DONINELLI was born in 1956. After spending years in Desenzano on Lake Garda, he now lives in Milan. He published Fa’ che questa strada non finisca mai (2014) and Le cose semplici (2015; Selezione Campiello Prize 2016) for Bompiani.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 160 BOMPIANI Pages: 112 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2018 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2015 Price: e 12,00 Price: e 12,00 72 73 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA & YA Wu Ming 4 Prehistory Stories The Little Kingdom STORIE DELLA PREISTORIA IL PICCOLO REGNO

The origins of our world according to a always happens, these fables use animal A summer tale. Four boys in the English and of friendship with Ned, a war hero and great author. traits and adventures to investigate countryside, the ghost of a warrior one of the rare adults who know how to talk mankind, its vices and follies. But in awakened from his sleep, a season in which to children. One day a sheep falls into a Alberto Moravia wrote these stories in the end it’s hopethat wins, as the reader everything changes. mound of earth, revealing the tomb of an 1982, as a collection of fables about the looks at these characters with human ancient warrior from which the protagonist creation of the world, a world inhabited understanding, that is indulgency over A tribute to the classics of English literature steals a gold bracelet: the ghost seeks him by animals of all shapes and kinds. As it their and his own whims and weirdness. for youngsters, a story set in that Golden out, leaving a trail of blood next to his Age which ends where childhood ends. room, taking on the form of a black mastiff. Among the lies and the mysteries of the The English countryside, in the Thirties. grown-ups, the brutality of two excessively For four boys it’s the time of conversations blonde twins and a tragedy, the Gente with the animals, of scuffles in the village, Bassa (Low People) are sadly to discover of the tree-house with its hidden secrets, that life is unfair.

ALBERTO MORAVIA WU MING 4 pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle (Rome 1907-1990), was a writer, a Gli indifferenti, La ciociara, La romana, Racconti romani and La is a member of the Wu Ming collective of writers – authors a nom de plume composed of the collective name plus journalist, an essayist, a travel reporter and a playwright. He is one of noia. In 1952 he was awarded the Strega Prize for his short stories, of the novel Q (Einaudi 1999) under the pseudonym “Luther a number. Wu Ming 4 is the solo author of the novel Stella the most important Italian novelists of the 20th century. He contributed blacklisted by the Church. Many of his novels have been made into Blissett”. Besides the group novels (54, Manituana, Altai), del mattino (Einaudi 2008), centred on the figure of Lawrence to newspapers such as “La Stampa”, “Corriere della Sera” and films, includingLa ciociara by Vittorio De Sica, Il disprezzo by Jean-Luc Wu Ming have also written solo novels, travel stories, of Arabia. The collective’s site is www.wumingfoundation.com “L’Espresso”. Among his most famous books translated worldwide: Godard and Il conformista by Bernardo Bertolucci. reportages and essays on literature. Each member has adopted

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It’s like reading a classic of English children’s literature, only with a more sorrowful touch. Le letture di “Biblioragazzi”

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BOMPIANI Pages: 208 BOMPIANI Pages: 240 RIGHTS LIST Publication: May/November 2017 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2016 Price: e 13,00 Price: e 13,00 16 17 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Orsola Nemi & YA Fabio Stassi In the Land of the Fairy She-Cat Zoe’s Alphabet NEL PAESE DI GATTAFATA L’ALFABETO DI ZOE

A delicate story about the Three Wise wish. You might wish for your childhood The adventure of a stubborn, brave The real problem is her mother who is Men, wishes, lonely old women and cats and they might take you back in time, in dyslexic little girl against an organization lying in induced sleep after an accident. disappearing into paintings. a little home full of dolls and puppets. of evil thieves of memories and against her Investigating on her bike with two friends, A fairytale published in 1944. A revival of But, if you get into a painting to look for own difficulties that are to become her Zoe discovers the real truth: her mother, a shy and well-read author, whose life is a kitten who has disappeared inside, you strength. like many other parents, was victim of a intertwined with that of Bompiani. must be aware that you may never go back. huge robbery of memories. In order to You are risking to end up in a fairy land, Zoe’s alphabet is not like ours because the get them back, and to have her mother If you are a lonely old woman and go out to where the witch she-cat Marfisa reigns letters are not always in the same order back. Zoe fearlessly challenges the King of buy a sandwich, you might meet the Three and the winds blow so strong as to wake as we know. But this is not a problem for Mirrors and his followers. A story of the Wise Men, and they might grant you a up the Sleeping Beauty. her; on the contrary, it’s a way of looking courage and pride of diversity. at the world from a different perspective.

ORSOLA NEMI FABIO STASSI her real name was Flora Vezzani. She worked in the publishing many Italian newspapers, she was friend with Eugenio Montale, was born in Rome in 1962. His family is of Sicilian origins. He Prize, Come un respiro interrotto (2014), La lettrice scomparsa world between 1930s and 1980s and with Bompiani during World , Emilio Cecchi, Gianfranco Contini, , has published L’ultimo ballo di Charlot, translated into nineteen (2016), Fumisteria, his first novel (GBM 2006, Premio Vittorini for War II. She translated French poets and novelists and wrote poems, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Leo Longanesi. languages (Sellerio 2013), second best at the Campiello Prize 2013, the best debut novel) and edited the Italian edition of Curarsi con i essays, articles, novels, fables and short stories. A contributor to Sciascia Racalmare Prize, Caffè Corretto Città di Cave Prize, Alassio libri. Rimedi letterari per ogni malanno (2013).

ILLUSTRATED BY SERGIO RUZZIER A NOVEL THAT SPEAKS BOTH TO KIDS AND TO GROWN-UPS, ALONG THE LINES OF FUORI FUOCO AND IL PICCOLO REGNO

BY THE AUTHOR OF L’ULTIMO BALLO DI CHARLOT SELEZIONE CAMPIELLO PRIZE 2013

Stassi composes an alphabet where the words bravery, friendship, loyalty have a distinct meaning anybody can understand. “La Lettura”

BOMPIANI Pages: 112 BOMPIANI Pages: 256 RIGHTS LIST Publication: November 2017 RIGHTS LIST Publication: October 2016 Price: e 11,00 Price: e 13,00 CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA John Steinbeck, Shout & YA Nadia Terranova Letter to Thom about Love Homer was here. LETTERA A THOM SULL’AMORE Myths and Legends from the Strait OMERO È STATO QUI. MITI E LEGGENDE DELLO STRETTO

A letter from father to son about love: be in love. His father, then living in New From Peix Nicolau to Scylla and go back to them and retell them. This how to tell it from an infatuation, how York with his second wife, Elaine, offered Charybdis, from Syrens and Mermaids anthology pays homage to the great ones to face such a new and overwhelming his views on the matter by writing him a to Morgana, ten stories from the of the past in order to offer the young emotion, how not to rush. touching and tender letter, here enriched Mediterranean tradition set in the readers the plethora of wonders the by Shout’s wonderful illustrations. waters of the Messina Strait. Greek world and the rich tradition of John Steinbeck enjoyed the duties of Mediterranean sea can offer us. fatherhood and dispensed advice to his Nadia Terranova was born and grew two sons when it was requested and up in Messina. The stories of her land sometimes when it was not. When in inhabit her and as she dedicated herself 1958 Steinbeck’s son Thom was fourteen to literature it would come natural to and attending boarding school in Connecticut he met a young girl named Susan with whom he thought he might

JOHN STEINBECK ALESSANDRO GOTTARDOaka SHOUT NADIA TERRANOVA VANNA VINCI (1902-1968) is one of the greatest American writers of the 20th was born in Pordenone but lives and works in Milan. He worked was born in Messina. Her first novel wasGli anni del was born in 1964 in Cagliari. She has been working in the century, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. His whole for the “New York Times”, “the Wall Street Journal”, “TIME”, contrario (Einaudi, 2015) but she also writes children’s comic and illustration world since 1990, becoming one of work is published in Italy by Bompiani. Penguin Books, Volkswagen, Barclays, ENI, Nokia and received books, such as Bruno: il bambino che imparò a volare and Le the most beloved Italian comic authors. She was awarded many important international prizes. nuvole per terra. Her novel Addio fantasmi was shortlisted the Yellow Kid Prize for the best comic author in 1999, the for the 2019 Strega Prize. Gran Guinigi Prize in 2005 and the Romics Prize for the best European work in 2001. She is best known for “La bambina filosofica”.

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BOMPIANI Pages: 32 BOMPIANI Pages: 64 Rightholder: RIGHTS LIST Publication: November 2018 RIGHTS LIST Publication: March 2019 MalaTesta Price: e 15,00 Price: e 10,00 Literary Agency CHILDREN CHILDREN & YA Alessandra Valtieri & YA Silvia Vecchini The Silk Princesses Before Nightfall and other stories from ancient faraway China. PRIMA CHE SIA NOTTE LE PRINCIPESSE DELLA SETA ALTRI RACCONTI CINESI

A collection of short stories to discover a clever emperors, storks and belligerent An unusual form (poetry and prose) to never stopped him from being funny, remote and fascinating world. Illustrated eels. Little things of everyday life and tell the story of a kid in trouble, who has happy, and very strong. But when his in black-and-white by Mauro Evangelista. great projects against the background of a to face another challenge: an operation sight seems to be failing it is too much vibrating civilization we can get to know that might or might not save his sight. for everybody, in the family. How do The Great Wall, animal fables, rites and better through stories. you stand up to such a risk? Simple: special celebrations: ancient China is Carlo can’t hear, Carlo can see only you just do it, that’s all. You try and a fascinating place, rich in stories. This from one eye, and now that eye is in smile, and you realize you actually can. selection is aimed to lure young readers danger. The narrating voice of this A strong family bond, an inexhaustible into a complex world: silkworms and story, written in poetry and prose, is his vital energy, irony and affection are the sister’s, a combative adolescent who source of a fine, unforgettable narrative has always been drawing energy from voice. her complicity with Carlo. His issues

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ALESSANDRA VALTIERI SILVIA VECCHINI translator and toy-seller, is author of Il coniglio di velluto was born in 1975 in Perugia. She loves poetry and has (Giunti). written several books for children and young adults. She regularly holds workshops and events based on her works. MAURO EVANGELISTA was born in Macerata, where he lives. He worked as a graphic designer before becoming a full-time illustrator and teacher. His works have been published both in Italy and abroad.

A moving story about resilience and courage.

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