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Giacomo is eleven years old, loves colors, music, drawing and imagining adventures. For everyone, however, Giacomo is the listless and not-clever-enough\’ child  who continues to make mistakes in the themes and has not yet learned the scoreboards. It is the despair of the mother, who leaves her job to be with him, and the torment of the father, who considers him a lost investment. So much so that the two get convinced by the professors of a prestigious institute to enroll him in a section for special boys. For everyone Giacomo is \’retarded\’. Why can’t he be like the others, doing what they do so easily? He must be stupid, there are no other explanations. Soon even James himself is convinced. But how much despair in this label that remains on him! Until Maestro Andrea arrives, a young teacher who is ready to listen to the difficulties of children. Andrea immediately understands that Giacomo is not stupid at all: on the contrary, the child has a depth and a sensitivity that allows him to see further than many of his companions. He simply suffers from undiagnosed dyslexia. Thanks to the help of Maestro Andrea, a bit of imagination and the right dose of hard work, Giacomo begins to learn with enthusiasm. And so, when he is called to the blackboard at the end of the year, he is ready: he can explain better than anyone what Leopardi’s Infinito means. Finally showing everyone that he is \’different\’ but never \’wrong\’.With the stories of 12 famous people who have overcome the obstacle of dyslexia going to a bright future.


Francesco Riva, born in 1993, is an author of theater and an actor. After graduating from the European Academy of Theatre and Cinema in Rome, he transformed his thesis – a monologue on the school experience of a dyslexic child – into a successful show entitled DiSlessiaA… Dove sei Albert?  from which this book was also born.

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