Dottori, trichechi e rotelle

The announcement of a pediatric visit is the occasion for a surreal dialogue between father and daughter, who find themselves imagining and exploring the ‘strange world’ of 5 doctors (paediatrician, orthopaedist, ophthalmologist, dentist and otolaryngologist) and everything that these mysterious characters deal with. Who does what? Who is who?The album is a free and playful tale in which Dad and daughter indulge each other in the use of imagination, shaping bizarre and funny scenarios that culminate in a double page – search/find type – showing all the doctors at work in the hospital, and in a small illustrated glossary with the names of some of the specialties of medicine.Set in the animal world, the illustrations by Corinne Zanette are striking for their vivid palette and richness of details, in a perfect marriage with the texts that are quirky and funny.Between puns, paradoxes and rhetorical figures, the tale has a circular development and proceeds lightly from one medical practice to another, culminating in a veritable real little illustrated vocabulary with which to know, finally, who a cardiologist is and what a psychologist does…