Appunti, storie private, cose vere e inventate di Matita HB

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«I am HB Pencil, which in pencil language means Hard Black, in other words a bit hard and a bit black. My real name is different, but here in my notebook I’m Pencil. It’s a nickname, a pen-name, like Lewis Carroll or Lady Gaga.»

In her hilarious notebook HB Pencil tells us about her life at school, her crush Jacob, her favorite writing spot (the fridge) and comic strip, Powercat.

Susanna Mattiangeli, winner of the 2018 Italian Andersen Prize, uses a variety of genres to show her young readers how easy and marvelous it is to inhabit both the real world and imaginary ones.

Publishing house Il Castoro
Year of publication 2018
Number of pages 123
ISBN 9788869663703
Foreign Rights Andreina Speciale, speciale@editriceilcastoro.it
Foreign Rights sold France, Spanish World, Catalan, Russia, Turkey, Korea, Poland
Awards Susanna Mattiangeli - Premio Andersen 2018
Price 13.00 €

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Susanna Mattiangeli is a writer and has extensive experience working with children. She runs children’s workshops, holds writing and drawing classes, designs puppets and stage. For Il Castoro she also wrote Someone like Anthony, Have you seen Anna?, How the teacher really works. She has been selected as finalist for 2018 Strega award and winner of the 2018 Italian Andersen Prize as Best Writer of the Year.

Rita Petruccioli is a freelance illustrator. She lives and works in Rome, but she has studied in Italy and France. She has been working for many different publishers and companies, in children’s books, comics, advertising all over the world.