“Because happiness is not produced by cutting: it almost never works, as with wisteria.” A gang of three makeshift “thieves” has a mission that is far from being equal to them. The author offers us a correct characterization of all our protagonists, so much so that we can imagine them without any difficulty in the scene of a comic film: the novel has a clear cinematic setting which constitutes its true strength. Without revealing too...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: vita quotidiana, famiglia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: mista tradizionale/digitale Età consigliata: 2-6 anni Camillo è il fratello di mezzo, ha una sorella e un fratello maggiori che pensano di sapere tutto e una sorella e un fratello minori che non sanno proprio niente di niente. Quello che invece sa Camillo è ciò che gli piace, cioè stare in pigiama....
“Justice is one thing, law is another.” Ennio Guarnieri è un poliziotto con un alto senso della giustizia che, dopo aver pestato i piedi a una persona a cui sarebbe stato meglio non farlo, sarà costretto a lasciare la divisa. Ennio Guarnieri is a policeman with a high sense of justice who, after stepping on the toes of a person it would have been better not to, will be forced to leave his uniform. The...
“Everyone is always someone else’s district, also Latina was a district.” Adoration is a novel in which the lives of adolescents intertwine, divided between the tragic death of their young friend Elena, constantly evoked, and a summer like many others, divided between the blossoming of bitter loves and new self-discoveries. The writing tends to have a story with an interesting core, more current and realistic than ever, but with a development, in our opinion, confused...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: silent book Tematiche principali: natura, animali, empatia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: mista (disegno su carta, fotografia e digitale) Età consigliata: 2-10 anni In un paesaggio completamente bianco ed innevato, una volpe arranca faticosamente. All’improvviso scorge un villaggio illuminato, vi cerca allora rifugio, ma viene scacciata da tutti gli abitanti. Decide così di nascondersi in una serra, ma un bambino che stava alla finestra...
Written by Maria Guidi This review is available only in the original language. _________________________________________________________________________ Scritto da Steinbeck nel 1937, Uomini e topi è uno di quei romanzi che – a prescindere dal trascorrere del tempo – risultano sempre attuali e lasciano un segno profondo nel lettore. È la storia di un’amicizia, quella tra George e Lennie, che si spostano da un ranch all’altro lavorando dove capita, con l’intenzione di mettere da parte abbastanza denaro da “avere un...
“Pizza is poverty experienced as wealth.” After the death of his father, Pietro, a middle-aged Milanese man, finds himself rewinding the history of his family, and goes to San Francisco to settle some pending matters of a home of his ancestors. There he finds a writing by one of his ancestors destined for future memory, in which he recounts the events that led him to flee Milan after taking part in the revolts against the...
“I wanted to go back into my mother’s womb and never be born again.” The book is a dry and poignant autobiography. The writer tells us about her life, from childhood until today, and entrusts us, without dwelling in pity, the difficult life lived in Hungary between the poverty of her family, the traumatic experience of deportation to the concentration camp, suffering and agony. and finally living as a survivor. We could easily tell ourselves...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato con tracce musicali da ascoltare Tematiche principali: musica, ritmo, meditazione Tecnica delle illustrazioni: acrilico Età consigliata: 0-6 anni Tutti abbiamo una musica dentro di noi… può essere veloce come una trottola o lenta, leggera come palloncini rossi o pesante come un masso, a volte arrabbiata, precisa come un orologio svizzero o capricciosa e volubile come le campane a festa. La...
THE FIRST REVIEW OF THE MONTH WILL BE DEDICATED TO THE NEW VOICE: “MONDAY DI-VERSO” “Es regnet so stark und es ist so schön, wenn es so stark regnet.” Dirty words. Clean words. What can a word dirty? A word is a construction of sounds, associations, meanings. It has its own physical consistency, a different flavor for each mouth. There is a love for words that not everyone understands because not everyone is used to...
