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fair 2012Alessandra Mele

Grandi & Associati Literary AgencyVia degli Olivetani 12 – 20123 Milan Italy

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March 2012Pages: 240

IL CLUB DEGLI AMICI IMMAGINARI

SILVANAGANDOLFI

The new book by the winner of the Andersen Award 2011Silvana Gandolfi brings us back to the Isola del tempo perso.Her book solds over 280.000 copiesOscar is almost ten. His mind rushes at full speed, but his lungs are weak.For this reason he spends his summer holidays by the sea together withhis parents, in an isolated house clinging to the cliffs overlooking the tinybeach of Portopidocchio. By the light of the moon, one night Oscar fur-tively descends on the beach. Mia, a young mermaid, is waiting for himon a rock. She convinces him to go to the Island of Lost Time, far awayfrom his strict and authoritarian father.However, not everything goes as planned: a group of Cannibals have leftthe Island for the Earth, where they are plotting a coup d’etat. Mia has aplan: she wants to gather a small army of imaginary friends to fight theCannibals who, in the meantime, have already conquered the Palace ofPower.

«The thing that shocked me the most about the true story is thebroken childhood of the protagonists and this is why I have triedto give a voice to those who have never had one».

Silvana Gandolfi

«Gandolfi is an inimitable master of engrossing surreal storieswhere the fantastic unexpectedly enters the everyday with sen-sational and exhilarating effects».

Bianca Pitzorno

Silvana Gandolfi lives in Rome and she is considered the greatest Italianchildren’s literature writer. She won many prizes, such as the Hans Chris-tian Andersen Prize as Italian author of the year in 1996, and she isamong the most translated Italian writers (Brazil, Hungary, France, Rus-sia, Netherlands, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, Usa, Spain, Portugal, Roma-nia, Japan). In Italy all her books have been published by Salani.

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Io dentro gli spari

September2010Pages: 228Rights sold to:Germany

(Carlsen),

Hungary(People TeamMillenium),

France (Editionsdes GrandesPersonnes, Gallimard), Brazil

(Editora Rocco)

La bambina in fondo al mare

2009Pages: 200Illustrationsby GiuliaD’Anna

Aldabra

2001Pages: 136Illustrations byFabian NegrinRights sold to:France (SeuilJeunesse),Germany

(Bertelsmann),

Spagna (Grup 62), World Englishright (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic), Brazil (EditoraRocco), Romania (HumanitasPublishing), Japan (Sekai Bunka),

Korea (Darim), Taiwan (MorningStar), Russian (Samokat),Hungary (Ulpiushaz), Taiwan

(Morningstar), Korea (Darim)

La memoria dell’acqua

1999Pages: 240Illustratedby GiuliaOrecchiaRights sold to:France (Ecoledes Loisirs),

Germany

(Bertelsmann),Brazil (Editora Rocco), Russia

(Samokat)

L’isola del tempo perso

1997Pages: 200Illustrationsby GiuliaD’AnnaRights sold to:Brazil (EditoraRocco), Thailand

(Image Publ.),Hungary

(Ulpiushaz), France (SeuilJeunesse), Japan (Sekai Bunka),

Portugal (Presenca)

Occhio al gatto

1995Pages: 216Rights sold to:France (Ecoledes loisirs),

Germany (Beltz& Gelberg),Brazil (EditoraRocco),

Hunghary(Ulpiushaz)

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Pasta di drago

1993Pages: 224Rights sold to:Germany (Bertelsmann), Brazil (Editora Rocco),France (Editions des Grandes Personnes)

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February 2012Pages: 208Cover illustration byGianni De Conno

GIOVANNA D’ARCO,LA RAGAZZA DAL VESTITO ROSSO

TERESABUONGIORNO

The new historical novel by Teresa Buongiorno, together withBianca Pitzorno, Silvana De Mari, Silvana Gandolfi, one of themost celebrated voices in children’s literature. Her books soldmore than 100.000 copies.

Joan of Arc is a legendary character. There are rumours that she escapedthe stake and was replaced at the last moment by someone else. Accord-ing to this version, Joan was sent to Rome to meet the Pope and obtainhis forgiveness. What if this rumour is true? What if Joan survived, onlyto be forced to confront the myth she left behind? In the 600th anniver-sary of her birth, The Maid of Orleans is alive and kicking in this novel,busy with her daily life, her petty chores, her friendships, revenges andresentments: the portrait of a visionary and extraordinary nineteen yearold girl comes to life.

«Teresa Buongiorno has a great gift: to tell the history so fasci-nating, like most great novels».

Bianca Pitzorno

Teresa Buongiorno was born in Rome and has a degree in MedievalHistory. She is a journalist and successful author of historical novels thathave been translated into French, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,Spanish and German. The following titles are all published by Salani:Olympos, il diario di una dea adolescente; La stella di tramontana. La sto-ria dell’ultimo viaggio di Marco Polo; Il mio cuore e una piuma di struzzo.Sui misteri dell’antico Egitto; Camelot. L’invenzione della Tavola Roton-da; Il ragazzo che fu Carlomagno; Il vento soffia nella foresta.

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January 2012Pages: 128Cover illustration byLorenza Natarella

UN PITONE NEL PALLONE

FABRIZIOSILEI

A story of sport and friendship that has a lot to say about thetransition from childhood to adolescence.

Federico is in his last year of primary school. One morning his peacefulroutine is upset by the arrival of a new classmate. While Federico be-comes increasingly angry and isolated, a python appears by his side,murmuring defensive football strategies in Federico’s ear and growingbigger and bigger. Federico is convinced no one else can see the python,but luckily there is a special granddad who dedicated his life to buildingships in bottles and has a special ability: he can see pythons and the feel-ings generating them.

Fabrizio Silei is one of the most renowned Italian authors for chil-dren and young adults: he won Premio Mariele Ventre 2009 –Shortlisted for Unicef Award 2010 – Premio ‘‘Il Gigante delleLanghe’’ 2010 – Premio Scelte di classe 2010.

«A book about friendship and responsibility, that teaches how those whoare different are not always luckier. And that jealousy, after all, is nothingbutfeardefeat is thefirststeptobecominggreat».GaiaRau, laRepubblica

«A funny story about imaginary friends envy and children. [...] FabrizioSilei is one of those Italian writers who can make everyone laugh andhave fun. It also teaches something about how to get rid of negativefeelings». Pierdomenico Baccalario, la Repubblica

Fabrizio Silei. His first novel Alice e i Nibelunghi (Alice and the Nibe-lungs) was acclaimed by critics and readers alike. In 2008 Silei wasthe only Italian author to make it to the final selection for theUnicef Award for human and children’s rights literature. Alice e i Nibe-lunghi and Bernardo e l’angelo nero are both published by Salani.

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March 2012Pages: 144

NIENTE MI BASTA

GIUSIQUARENGHI

In 2006 Giusi Quarenghi was awarded with the Premio Andersen Italia«For the quality of her writing which in time has become more and morerefined and aware. For her skill in moving with great mastery in differentfields, between humour and commitment, fun and her skill at creatingfantastic tales».

An amazing and intense novel that uncovers one of the most dis-turbing aspects of being a teenage girl.

This is Gaspara’s story: an unsettled teenager with a serious problem ofanorexia.

«The protagonist’s story has a taste of real life and is measuredwith a human reality that today, more often than not, involvesthe adolescent stage of life».

Roberto Denti

Giusi Quarenghi lives in Bergamo. After obtaining her degree in Philo-sophy, she worked on animated cartoons, comics and illustrations. She isa journalist and her articles regularly appear in newspapers and specia-lized magazines. She published her first short story in Il Corriere dei Pic-coli in 1979. Her first novel was published in 1982. Her books havebeen published by Italian prestigious publishers. In 2006 shewas awarded the Premio Andersen-Italia. E sulle case il cielo,her collection of poems has been included in the IBBY Honour List2010, a biennial selection of the most outstanding children’s books fromall over the world.

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September 2011Pages: 160already 2 reprints

MAGICA AMICIZIA

ANDREABOUCHARD

A new, out of the ordinary story of magical friendship from themost ‘‘reprinted’’ Italian author for young readers

Pandora was born under the lucky sign of sweets and cakes. Musli wasborn under the sign of animals. Viola under the sign of flowers.Mobli was born under the sign of furniture. He’s a great inventor.These four children were all born on the same night. The day of theirtenth birthday they meet by chance in a camp-site by the sea and theywitness the odd disappearance of objects and the appearance of ratherstrange characters. Taking advantage of their special gifts, they start in-vestigating and soon discover that a rather nasty individual is behind allthis: the Ice Man. When the children start to disappear, including Pan-dora and Musli, Viola a Mobli are ready to do anything to save theirtwo best friends, even to go to the South Pole where the Ice Man ex-ploits the kidnapped children for his own shady purposes.

Andrea Bouchard, one of the best known young authors in Italy,was born in Milan in 1963. When he was twenty-one, he dropped out ofuniversity to follow his artistic vocation. In Rome he attended variouscourses in music, acting and creative writing while working at the sametime. In 1998 the Town Council of Rome and Amnesty Internationalchose one of his papers to promote the ‘Universal Declaration for theRights of Children’ in the schools in Rome.Acqua dolce recently won the prize Biblioteche di Roma 2010.

96 pages5 reprints!!!

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March 2012Pages: 128

VITA DI BERNIE

MASSIMOSALVADORI

The renowned historian Massimo Salvadori tells us a dog’s life,narrated from the animal’s point of view

With a preface by Claudio Magris on the amazing relationshipthat can sparkle between a dog and its master

Face to face with some animal, and especially dogs, we often think: «Ifonly it could speak...» In this book the reader hears Bernie’s voice loudand clear. And that’s clearly a lucky exception, given that when his mas-ters are around Bernie generally refuses to bark. Abandoned at a veryyoung age, the puppy is adopted by a young couple living in town: Mat-teo and Dorina. At the beginning, living with humans is not that easy forBernie... Life, from the point of view of four legs instead of two, is verydifferent: vets and dog-washers torturing you, human nieces teasingyou, and then there are the leash, the muzzle, the outings with thegrandparents and the flights. Now that he is older and wiser, Bernieshares with the reader, in a proud and self-conscious tone, what the spe-cial life of an ordinary dog is like.

«Thanks to this novel, we get to know the real essence of therelationship between a man and his dog».

Claudio Magris

MASSIMO L. SALVADORI, an Italian historian and politician, was bornin Ivrea on 23 September 1936. He studied under W. Maturi in Turin andunder F. Chabod at the «Istituto italiano per gli studi storici» in Naples.He furthered his academic education at Trinity College in Dublin and atLeipzig University. He has been teaching History of Political Doctrine inTurin since 1967. Between 1992 and 1994 he was an MP for the left-wing party «Partito Democratico della Sinistra». Among his many publi-cations are Il Novecento: un’introduzione and Democrazie senza demo-crazia, published by Laterza.

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March 2012Pages: 96Illustrated byRaffaella Ligi

SCHELETRINA CICCIABOMBA

SIMONAVINCI

Simona Vinci internationally acclaimed author, did a terrific jobcreating a great story for children.

Two stories in one. Two delicate, metaphorical tales about chil-dren’s discomfort.

Two stories, two points of view and two covers within the same book:read the story of Miss Skinny (Scheletrina) and then turn the book todiscover the story of Miss Chubby (Cicciabomba), or the other wayround. Just keep on turning the book again and again.

SIMONA VINCI was born in Milan and currently lives outside Bologna.Together with other young writers, she runs the literary web magazineIncubatoio 16. Her debut novel, Dei bambini non si sa niente (EinaudiStile Libero), was published in 1997. The novel raised a storm of contro-versy, was praised by critics and became a great success with the publiceven in the States. In 1999 Vinci published a collection of short stories, Intutti i sensi come l’amore, (Einaudi). Vinci is also author of two childrenbooks, Corri Matilda and Matilda city. During her career, Vinci has beenshortlisted for the Strega and Campiello awards.

RAFFAELLA LIGI lives and works in Zurich. In 1997 she started workingas an illustrator in publishing for children. Her books are published in Italyand abroad.

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From the book Scheletrina Cicciabomba

«The story of a girl who is too fat and another that is toothin, who in the end discover they are one and the samegirl: Olivia, who is neither too fat nor too thin, does notbear the weight of unfriendly or cruel nicknames, andlearns, together with those close to her, to love whatshe eats (and therefore her body and herself) withoutbeing devoured. It is both wonderful and exhaustingbeing a child. Bodies that are simultaneously fragile andvery strong, that lengthen, grow and change in just afew short months. A constant transformation that soaksup so much energy not just from the body, but also fromthat thing that inhabits it and each one of us calls as besthe or she thinks: soul, spirit, character... But most of all itis difficult being a child among other children, as happensat school, when this body we inhabit and reveals us toothers can become a source of insecurity, unease and suf-fering. For children, kitchens have become a mysteriousand forbidden place to which they have free access onlyto consume a meal decided, thought up, bought and pre-pared by adults, never a place of fun and experimenta-tion. Thus, food becomes lots of different things all rolledinto one, but rarely something that passed through theirhands and their intelligence. It would often take so littleto try to harmonize body and food, as well as that otherthing that each one of us calls as best he or she thinks. Alittle fantasy would be enough, some attention paid tothat food that should nourish us and help us grow uphappy, without becoming an obsession either because itis too much or too little. One approach could be to usestories that make things real and, in this case, edible. Itis up to the parents to find the creativity, the attentionand the time. And Olivia is a good place to start!»

Simona Vinci

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April 2012Pages: 96

ALFABETO EBRAICO

MATTEOCORRADINI

andGRAZIANIDASIO

Matteo Corradini is an eclectic intellectual with the gift of writ-ing.

Grazia Nidasio is the most important Italian illustrator of all time.

Stories that show how to read the wonders of the world.

The book presents every letter of the Hebrew alphabet together with anillustrated story inspired by Jewish mythology and culture, offering acomprehensive introduction to their origin, meanings and history. Thetexts are written in an approachable style and are suitable for readersof any age. A section of the book is dedicated to the calligraphic tech-niques one has to learn in order to write the Hebrew alphabet.

MATTEO CORRADINI has a degree in Hebrew and is very active in or-ganizing events, workshops and didactic activities on the topic of theShoah. He regularly writes in the magazines Andersen, Popotus, Animalsand Scuola Italiana Moderna. Corradini was awarded the national Alber-to Manzi award for the best educational communication for children.His website is www.matteocorradini.com.

GRAZIA NIDASIO was an illustrator and later editor for the magazineCorriere dei Piccoli and currently collaborates with Smemoranda. She isa script writer and has created characters such as Valentina Mela Verdeand Stefi. Her graphic style is highly distinctive. Between 1984 and1987 she was the President of the Association of Illustrators.In 1987 she won the Andersen award for best author; in 2001 An-dersen awarded Nidasio a Special mention for her distinguishedcareer.

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May 2012Pages: 32

I VESTITI IMPOSSIBILI

CHIARARAPACCINI

In March 2012 Chiara Rapaccini received the special award for heroutstanding achievement in the field of Illustration.

A masterpiece of imagination and beauty.A great classic of Italian illustration.

Imagine a funny wardrobe with a set of colourful and unique clothes.The wardrobe is full of «impossible clothes» to do «impossible things»:there is a pot-hat to play in the kitchen, and a cake-hat to wear at birth-day parties, a soft, bubbly dress of foam, an iron skirt, an invisible dress,some tree-shoes, talking socks, warming knickers and an umbrella full ofholes. Everyday clothes can be, in fact, rather boring and anonymous.Free your imagination with this book and create your own style.

Chiara Rapaccini currently lives in Rome, where she works as a writerand illustrator of children books for some of the best Italian publishinghouses. She created cinema and TV cartoons. Her illustrations appearedin Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, il Manifesto and l’Unita. Herpaintings, sculptures and design works have been exhibited in Rome, Mi-lan, Venice, Osaka, Brussels, Paris, New York and Tokyo.In 2002 she held a workshop on writing and illustrating for children inTokyo. In 1999 she was awarded the national Premio Battello a Va-pore for the Best children’s Illustrator.

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January 2012Pages: 1602 reprints in 1 week!!!

COME NON FARSIBOCCIARE A SCUOLA

MATTEO RAMPINand

FARIDAMONDUZZI

An international approach in the tradition of Come si fa una tesidi laurea by Umberto Eco.Strategies, techniques, tips, tricks, mistakes and traps to avoid: asurvival guide for students and their parents from an author whosold 70.000 copies

A practical guide to choose the right school, to behave properly in classand to manage the relationships with the teachers; but also tips and ad-vice on how to study, how to handle oral and written exams, how to getback on track when things go wrong, how to overcome performanceanxiety and to enhance your potential...

«From choosing the right desk to smiling to your teacher: all the tips toavoid failing at school». la Repubblica

Matteo Rampin, psychiatrist and psychotherapist has over twentybooks to his credit, all published in Italy and abroad.

Farida Monduzzi is a former Economics and Law secondary school tea-cher. Monduzzi currently works as a journalist, writing about art and ci-nema in weekly magazines and online.

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March 2012Pages: 32

UN SASSO NELLO STAGNO

GIANNIRODARI

Gianni Rodari: his life and stories – Book and DVD Box set

An exceptional document about the most important Italianauthor for children of the XX century.

An original portrait of Gianni Rodari that follows the stages of hiseducation and development, the evolution of his poetic vision, and fo-cuses on the aspects that shaped and still shape contemporary imagina-tion.

The Book: Gianni Rodari. Il giocoliere della fantasia contains an introduc-tion to the author, journalist and intellectual who has always been an in-dependent thinker, followed by a rare interview-essay with RobertoDenti and a director’s note by Felice Cappa.

The DVD: Gianni Rodari. Un sasso nello stagno is the first documen-tary dedicated to Gianni Rodari, produced by Fondazione Aida Tea-tro Stabile di Innovazione, Rai Trade and Adriano Salani editore, incollaboration with Palco e Retropalco Rai 3, Educa and under the pa-tronage of Unicef Italia. Written and directed by Felice Cappa.

A journey to discover Gianni Rodari’s life, places and stories, with contri-butions, tributes and thoughts by Dario Fo, Cesare Zavattini, BrunoMunari, Umberto Eco, Tullio De Mauro and many others.

«I wish Rodari were still with us. He stressed the importance of under-standing the difference between children and adults, and helped chil-dren to get together to face the many social problems they encountered:we can build a better society if we respect children’s autonomy and theirway of thinking... Reading is a fundamental ingredient of growing up:we can think because we have words, and if you know how to use them,you can give them different meanings. How do you learn? There is nosuch topic at school: reading is the only way. Rodari created a pedago-gical approach despite his narrative is far from pedagogic: here lies hisgreatness». Roberto Denti

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