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Who is the other? The different? The unknown? Are we sure we are looking in the right way? A silent book portraying the extraordinary encounter between a boy and a gorilla that will overturn our perspective and ignite children’s thought.


Lenina Barducci has always loved drawing and painting, and studied at various art schools. She worked as a restorer for years, but after attending the creative writing school Bottega Finzioni, she fell in love with picture books. She is now attending Ars in Fabula, a professional course for editorial illustration.I

llustrated by Chiara Ficarelli, selected for the Italian Excellence exhibition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2021.

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