Piccola mappa delle paure
Who is the guy living in the deepest, most impenetrable pitch-black darkness without complaining? And how can Enrica carry inside her small pieces of four dead people? Where does the voice pushing Filippo to grasp the girl’s wrist and convince her to follow him under the cherry tree come from? Paola would jump without a problem, but higher rather than down, because she doesn’t like water. She doesn’t like it in any form, not even the clear, blue, transparent water below her. Roberto is scared of growing up too fast, or even to grow up at all. Twenty-one protagonists, boys and girls, twenty-one stories, twenty-one fears.
• Stories by a New York Times contributing author.
• Andersen Award winner and inventor of a kids favourite character: Pecora Nera.
Writer and illustrator, he is the author of more than thirty children books. He was honoured with the Andersen Award as “all-around author”. He reached success thanks to The New York Times, and later started collaborations with Linus, Comix, Il Corriere della Sera, Pimpa magazine, and the TV show for kids l’Albero Azzurro. In 1995 he invented the cartoon character Pecora Nera and the cultural project La Pecora Nera & altri Sogni, carried out in the Nisida juvenile hall.
