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BOOKS CATALOGUE
Chi l'ha detta - (Bad words smell bad)
Everything began in a normal afternoon while mrs Hedgehog was making a cake,
Baby Hedgehog came running, he just heard a bad word!
What could Mrs Hedgehog do? Go find the bad word culprit of course!
The inquisitive Mrs Hedgehog follows the clues and will finally find herself in front of Crocodile!
“Bad words are not to be said Mr Crocodile”. But was Crocodile guilty? And the word was really a bad word?
A book about bad words and smelly cakes, or was it the other way round?
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 23x27,5 cm
ISBN: 9788888254353
Rights sold: Turkish Other rights available.
Chissadove - (Whoknowswhere)
In the middle of the hill there’s a tree full of little seeds who grow in silence, eager to become trees and have the chance to speak and say “good morning” and “good evening”.
One day, the wind comes and the tree shall say goodbye to the little seeds who start their trip to “Whoknowswhere”.
But there’s a little seed who refuses to leave to “Whoknowswhere”, because he’s very
afraid... A tale of love, fear and the courage of letting grow our little seeds.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 23,5x27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254951
Rights sold: English (world), Arabic, Complex Chinese (TW excluded), Simplified Chinese, English
French, Korean, Portuguese (BR)*, Spanish, Thailandese*.
*Now free again. Other rights available.
Cucù - (Peek-A-Boo)
Before falling asleep Pepe sees a little hand coming out from the bottom of the bed: whose hand is that one, waving, pointing, clapping, scratchscratching and caressing? Will it be bear’s, monkey’s or crocodile’s one?
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 20 x 20 cm
ISBN: 9788888254401
Rights sold: Catalan, French*, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish. Other rights available.
Frullato (My Little Twister)
Michael just wanted a pet like his friends: a kitty, a puppy, an hamster! But
his parents brought home something different..
Michael calls her Twister, because she's like a tornado that topples over everything on her route!
Twister is like a mix of many different animals: she has the claws of a cat
and sharp teeth as a dog, She is vigilant as a wolf and fast as a cheetah,
but above all… she’s his baby sister!
Will Michael find a way to live with his little sister?
A funny story on how siblings get along and how everyone has to find his
place with a new arrival in the family.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 23,5x27 cm
ISBN: 9788899556266
Rights available.
Il Ballerino del Silenzio - (The Silence Dancer)
There’s never a night like another. And in every respectable night many things can happen. There are clouds, there’s the moon, there are lonely streets and streetlamps. Then there’s the silence. There are many kinds of silence: the one with far noises and the one stringed with little sounds; then there’s the silence that remains, that lasts, that is not disturbed.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254760
Rights sold: Simplified Chinese - Other rights available.
Il Brutto Anatroccolo - (The Ugly Duckling)
We all know the story of the Ugly Duckling...But this time the classical story is made modern by the wonderful illustrations of the young Italian talent Veronica Ruffato.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 23,50 x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788899556181
Rights available.
Il Domatore di Foglie - (The Leaves Tamer)
In two days Autumn is expected to begin but no one has seen him yet.
He had never been late. It happened before that he arrived few days earlier, riding the first gust of wind.
But he has never been late! This is quite strange...
How can leaves learn to fall if no one teaches them how to?
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254876
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese, Danish, Japanese. Other rights available.
Il Leone Mangiadisegni - (The Drawing-eating Lion)
Once upon a time there was a lion who liked children’s drawings. He liked them a lot:
“Children’s drawings are tastier than others. I don’t know why... Maybe it's because of all those colours, maybe it's because the strokes are thicker. The fact is that they are really good. There’s nothing I like more than a drawing just made by a child.”
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm X 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254593
Rights sold: Arabic, Complex Chinese*, French, Japanese, Korean*, Portuguese (Brazil). *Now free again. Other rights available.
Il Principe Non Ranocchio - (The Unfrog Prince)
“I’m tired! Enough! I can’t stand it anymore!” croaked the prince looking out of his window. After the kiss that turned him in a kid again, the prince is sick and tired of every one always telling him what to do, what to eat and how to behave! He wants his freedom back! How could he be free as a frog again?
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 40 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788899556013
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese (HK and Macau) – other rights available
Il Sapore del Pane - The Taste of Bread)
“The Taste of Bread” recalls the daydreams about the distant mother, the conflicting love for the adoptive family, the rough sweetness of country life.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 17 cm x 24 cm
ISBN: 9788888254609
Rights sold: All rights available.
Il soldatino - (The little fighter)
The little fighter is one of us. Children and adults as well.
Always marching, always aiming at the next target, being it in sport, in school, in work, in life.
There isn’t space for anything else in his mind.
One day something different stirs in the little fighter, he notices a warm light and walks through a door,
he doesn’t know what he’s looking for, until he finds it.
A deep and powerful book,
to rediscover, now more than ever, that we need something more.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 40 pages
Size: 23x27,5 cm
ISBN: 9788888254341
Rights sold: Spanish (North & South America) Other rights available.
Il Sole col Singhiozzo - (The Sun has Hiccups)
It was a nice morning of a nice spring day.
- Cock-a’doo... - sang the rooster without finishing his song, and it fell asleep. - Drin, dr... - and the alarm clock fell silent. Everything was dark again! What was happening? Why day and night were so fast in changing shifts? Very simple: the sun had hiccup!
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 40 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788899556006
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese (HK and Macau) , Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean. Other rights available.
L'Omino del Blu (The Blue Seller)
"Come, ladies and gentlemen, come! I sell sky pieces of every type and shade”.
The sky was an interesting good for the people indeed.
It was something they haven’t been seeing for a while and they didn’t remember it for sure.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 40 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254944
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese, Korean - Other rights available.
L'Orso con la Spada - (The Bear with the Sword)
A morning the water comes unexpexted and destroys the house of the Bear with the Sword.
Who did let the water flow and destroy his home? It’s not the dam’s keeper fault – he says – because he opened the dam scared by a beast. So, it’s the beast’s fault!...
At the end, the bear will discover that he lost his house because, with his sword, he cut the trees of the wood…
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 20,5 cm x 30,5 cm
ISBN: 9788888254432
RIGHTS SOLD: Complex Chinese (x2 Taiwan + Ebook), Simplified Chinese x2 (China),
French (world) Korean, Portuguese (Brazil)
NOW FREE: Dutch*, English (world* + Ebook x2, German*, Japanese*, Slovenian*, Spanish* (world), Thailandese*. Other rights available.
L'Uomo d'Acqua - (The Waterman and his Fountain)
From a badly closed tap, leaking droplets, drop by drop, a waterman is born.
The man gets out, in the streets he’s mistaken for a puddle, for an hallucination. So he get used to sneak nightly around, silent, grazing the walls, sometimes he waters the flowers sometimes he washes the dirty front window
of some motorists...
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254777
Rights sold: Arabic, Catalan*, Simplified Chinese, Galician,* Japanese*, Korean, Portuguese, Russian*, Slovenian*, Spanish,Turkish. *Now free. Other rights available.
La Corsa della Lumaca - (The Run of the Snail)
It was a hot summer day when Snail came out of her burrow and started to run. “Look Snail how is big the sun today!“ - Shouted Badger a little forward. “I can’t, I can’t, I have to go!” - Answered Snail. She entered the wood. ”Hi Snail, feel how the air is fizzy! It pinches on the muzzle!” - Bear said to her with glittering eyes. “Yes, yes, but I don’t have time, I have to go!” - Bear looked at her shaking his head. A little forward she crossed a bridge over the stream. And she run. Yes, Snail was going so fast that she seemed running…
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254692
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese (TW excluded), English* (Singapore). * Now free again.
Other rights available.
Lavarsi che Impresa - (Having a Wash: what a Venture)
With stinksuckers, sweetsmells and scratchers even having a wash can be fun.
I always hated to have a wash!! I’d rather be imprisoned by indians or put at a stake, under the scorching heat of the desert! No water. Drying drought!
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN 9788888254708
Rights sold: Catalan*, French, Korean*, Simplified Chinese (China), Complex Chinese (TW excluded), Slovenian*, Spanish (world)*, Portuguese (Brazil). Other rights available.
*now free again
Le Scarpe della Volpe (The Fox and the Shoes)
In the wood everything moves and nothing stays still.
Someone is telling us a story about lost shoes, ambushes and chases,
but above all of patience and courage.
The new book by Cristiana Valentini and María Moya is full of details and things going on,
this really is a wood full of busy animals!
A funny crossover between fiction and non-fiction, this lovely story takes us in a journey between seasons in the wood
and funny animals that would make anything to catch a shoe! What would they use it for?
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm.
ISBN: 9788899556150
Rights sold: Complex and Simplified Chinese (TW excluded.)
Ligabue. Come mi chiamo non ha importanza - (Ligabue. My name is not important)
This is the portrait of Antonio Ligabue, an Italian painter maladjusted to society and mistreated by it.
This is the portrait of his life, his art and his dramatic and misunderstood existence.
He's alone, with only a mirror for a friend, lost in nobody’s land near the Po River.
This is the story of a solitary man who struggles against the society all throughout his life.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 148 pages
Size: 17 cm x 24 cm
ISBN: 9788888254647
Rights sold: German. Other rights available.
Mamma chi sono io? - (Mum, who am I…?)
It’s dark outside. Emily watches the silent raindrops run down the window:
"Who is this person I see, is she quite like me? She’s a thinker. She’s a philosopher. She’s a scientist. Who is she? Can she be me?"
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 20 cm x 20 cm
ISBN: 8888254296
Rights sold: Catalan, Complex Chinese (world)*, Simplified Chinese, Korean (2edit.), Slovenian*, Spanish (world), Thailandese*, Turkish*. Other rights available. *now free again
Morsicotti - (Sweet Bites)
A book to read before going to sleep to chase fears away.
It teaches, while playing, the names of the different body parts and verbs.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 20 cm x 20 cm
ISBN: 9788888254586
Rights sold: Catalan, Dutch*, French*, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish. *Now free again.
Other rights available.
Perché mio Nonno ha i Capelli Bianchi - (Grandpa and the Story of the Snow )
“I’d like my hair to stay white like yours, forever.”
And this is how Grandpa got white hair, says Grandpa finishing his story.
It all started with the question “Why do you have white hair?”,
and it became a story about love and growing up, snow and flour.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm.
ISBN: 9788899556099
Rights sold: All rights available.
Qualcosa da Dire - (Rumour Has It)
In the forest you could hear was rumours and chit-chat. There wasn't a single moment of silence!
What do they all have to chat about? Are Lizards really so selfish? Is it true that the Squirrel has a Shark for a friend?
And what about the Hedgehog? What is he doing when he curls up like a ball?
This is a story that will make us understand how important it is to talk WITH others and NOT ABOUT the others.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22,0 cm x 27,0 cm
ISBN: 9788899556105
Rights sold: Complex Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Other rights available.
Quasi quasi oggi cresco (Let's Grow Up Today!)
Let's grow up today!
The imagination of our little puppy runs free in this title, playing with everything he could be growing up.
Well, growing up could be so tiring.. maybe it's better doing it tomorrow...
A lovely story on growing up, at the right time.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 23,5x27 cm
ISBN: 9788899556297
Rights available.
Sapore Italiano - (Italian Flavour)
A sunday lunch among Italian emigrants.
So many generations of Italian people emigrated bringing with them cooking traditions, daily habits and memories.
“Once tomatoes were dried under the sun. Because, you know, things you got in Italy have got another taste, a different flavour. But when things leave Italy and cross the border...”
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 80 pages
Size: 17 cm x 24 cm
ISBN: 9788888254579
Rights sold: French (CH)*, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese.
* Now free. Other rights available.
Sottosopra - (Upside Down)
Once upon a time there was a mountain...
And there were two towns, one at the top of the mountain and the other one at the foot of the mountain.
The one at the top was called UPTOWN and the one at the bottom was called DOWNTOWN.
The inhabitants from UPTOWN knew nothing of DOWNTOWN.
And of course, the inhabitans of UPTOWN and DOWNTOWN were really different from one another. In fact, one might say they were not at all alike.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 48 pages
Size: 20 cm x 32 cm
ISBN: 9788888254753
Rights sold: Korean*, Simplified Chinese, Spanish (world). *Now free again. Other rights available.
Tutto in un Abbraccio - (All in a Hug)
“Baby Bear, everything hugs everything in the universe.
It’s a mysterious jumble that fasten us and hold us.
Gas and dust hug each other to create stars.
You see how the Snow hugs the Mountain? And the Sea that hugs the Shore?
The world is a huge ball made of hugs, my dear.
Where everything is tightened, wrapped, completed."
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm.
ISBN: 9788899556082
Rights sold: French, Complex and simplified Chinese (TW, HK and Macau), Croatian, German, Korean, Thailandese
Other rights available.
Un Bacio in Viaggio (Goodbye, Little Kiss!)
“It was just a kiss carried by the wind.
A tiny, tiny kiss. Where will it go? ”
By the same authors of “Tutto in un Abbraccio” ,
a new title about love, kisses and how tiny things can bring a little light wherever they go!
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm.
ISBN: 9788899556167
Rights sold: French. Other rights available.
Zero Baci per Me! (Zero Kisses, please!)
Tim doesn’t want to be kissed before going to sleep:
“Mum! I don’t want kisses tonight! Stop it! I’m fed up with being hugged, crushed, choked, cuddled, and overkissed!” “Why, my little darling? I don’t understand!…” “Kisses are so…so ... BLEAH! They are so WET!”.
BOOK INFO:
Pages: 32 pages
Size: 22 cm x 27 cm
ISBN: 9788888254852
Rights sold: Catalan, Complex Chinese* (TW), Simplified Chinese (China), English* (N. America), French* (world), Korean, Slovenian*, Spanish (world), Thailandese*.
Other rights available.