The golden age

On a cold autumn evening, a baby is born in a village. He is as tiny as a bean, with wrinkled skin and a voice like a kitten's.

Maria Carla works at the Lost Property Office’s. Efficient and impeccable, every morning she meets strange and desperate characters who come to her in need of help.

The author and bookseller Valentina Pellizzoni, in love with the Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, decides to rewrite a selection among the lesser-known ones.

A tale from Ancient Greece about a touching friendship between a little girl and a bear.

La grande fiaba intrecciata is a collection of fairy tales by Beatrice Solinas Donghi, first published fifty years ago.

One day Zeus, disguised as an ordinary man, went with his son to the land of Phrygia. They went begging for food and a place to stay, but out of thousand doors they knocked at, no one opened.

This is the story of a granddaughter and a grandmother tied by a very special bond. A garden, a hospital, a lost set of keys, a pair of rain boots, a magic dog, a talking mole...

Once upon a time there was a king who was crying. He had lost his best friend. [...] For seven days the king, Gilgamesh was his name, watched over his friend, Enkidu.

Mia is a little magician. How do we know? Because she sees things that don't exist. Or rather, things that exist, but others don't see, like tiny red roosters in love who jump and run.

After their first edition, which dates back to 1979, these wonderful "chained" fairy tales by Beatrice Solinas Donghi, are back.