Cristina was born in Naples. It was at the end of the eighties and life appeared to be hard with the thread of camorra, earthquakes and nuclear explosions happening.
Arianna is tiny, quiet, shy, but very curious and lively, she feels like an outsider. In her father’s family they’re all very talkative and speak even in their sleep.
One day Mister Guglielmo finds two wings under a peach tree in his garden. To whom could they belong? he wonders. Maybe to someone who’s lost them or left them here but will come and find them.
Rosso belongs to a new series of P.i.P.P.o. collection published in collaboration with Musei Civici di Firenze, each one being dedicated to a specific colour.
E sulle case il cielo was published in 2007 and has been a turning point for poetry aimed at young readers ever since. It has had five reprints and sold over 10.000 copies.
After many requests upon its first publication in our blog, 20 good reasons to give children a picturebook is eventually on sale in a special edition case.
In this book you’ll find a general, an officer and many people eager to “go beyond”. But going beyond is not possible: it is forbidden to cross the frontier of the page.