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From the author of the besteller If I Hug You Don\’t Be Afraid (Se ti abbraccio non aver paura), a novel that talks about the environment and the future. Plastic carpets the bottom of the sea. Strange animals live in manholes. For the \’Buttacarte\’, led by Mister Daniel Douglas Tossic, called DDT, this is exactly how it has to go.The world seems hopeless.Fortunately Zack, Irma, Cleo and the boys and girls of eight hundred and six countries of the world still see hope.In the company of a trained bumblebee, an iguana who falls asleep in case of danger and other peculiar animal friends, they leave on foot, by bicycle or train to reach the Great conference to save the world.Ecology, responsibility, adventure, friendship, courage and resourcefulness in a very current novel.


Fulvio Ervas was born in the countryside of Venice. He teaches natural sciences, eats vegetables grown in his own garden and loves every animal. His most famous book is Don\’t Be Scared if I Hug You, the real story of a road trip of a father and his autistic son. Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a movie: All My Crazy Love (Tutto il mio folle amore). This is his first novel for young readers.

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