L’arancio
There is barely a moment’s peace for the Orange Tree! It barely has time to grow into a beautiful tree when birds take away its fruit, a caterpillar eats its leaves, and a farmer arrives with large shears…
But enough is enough, and one day the Orange Tree decides to show everyone what it feels like to be cut up and eaten. When the police arrive, it begins a daring escape across rooftops, on escalators, by boat, and even boards a plane that drops him off on a beautiful island.
And so, what happens to the new-born Orange? Well, it seems that everyone has learnt something from this story, and Andrea Antinori also tells us: ‘Never disturb a growing orange!’
Andrea Antinori was born in Recanati in 1992 and lives in Bologna. He studied at the ISIA in Urbino and at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. Since 2013, he has worked with many Italian publishing houses. In 2017 and 2020 he was among the illustrators selected for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. In 2019 The great battle won the Best Picture Book award at The China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair.
