I cavalieri delle buone maniere
In a town far, far away, there lived a group of people whose children were very ill-mannered. They didn’t wash, never cleared the table, and ate only sweets, just to give you an idea. Desperate times call for desperate measures, their parents told themselves. So, they decided to call the Knights of Good Manners to re-educate their children in the most effective way possible. However, they hadn’t considered the possibility of also having to be brought back in line themselves.
• A witty and ironic picture book that makes us smile and reminds us that perhaps, all in all, none of us are perfect.
• With this project, Emanuele Benetti won the 2020/2021 edition of the Lucca Junior Contest – “Livio Sossi” Editorial Illustration Award.
Pierdomenico Baccalario started writing at an early age and won the Il Battello a Vapore Prize in 1998. Since then he has written many adventure stories, series, and fantasy novels for children, translated into 30 languages and published by top Italian and foreign publishers. For over 20 years he has worked with the Lucca Comics & Games organisation, as well as with La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura. In 2013, he created the creative agency Book on a Tree, in London.
