Case così
Home sweet home, goes the motto, but in how many other ways can a home be? Antonella Abbatiello, one of the most famous Italian authors for children, has tried to invent a lot of them, according to small readers’ emotions and thoughts. As every parent and every teacher knows well, a house is the first item children try their budding talent on: it is sufficient to grab a pencil and a sheet of paper and a classic sloping roof appears, under which two small windows blink and a small door is shut like a mouth. And how many bizarre details they are ready to add in order to describe the den of their heart in their own way! Here then is the right book to accompany their imagination. A different house on each page and a further new emotion. There are funny and tender, joyful and dreamy, imaginative and surprising ones; and each one can be the beginning of a game to be stretched endlessly. This is why a small section at the back of the book invites its small readers to draw and invent houses the way they please. A book destined to become a small classic for childhood, which will not fail to win adults over too, thanks to its wit.
In 2019 Case così has been awarded with the Premio Malerba per l’Albo Illustrato and the Premio nazionale Nati per leggere, Nascere con i libri (18-36 months).
Antonella Abbatiello has written and illustrated almost 90 children\’s books. She has published for top Italian publishers and her books have been translated and published in 19 countries. As Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini’s only assistant, she collaborated at the making of their animation films. She executed the whole graphic part for Leo Lionni’s three films Cornelius, È mio! and Un pesce è un pesce.
