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A walk around the city, looking for a secret place that it’s hard to guess, despite of the many clues the main character gives the reader and all the children that follow her on the way. SPOILER ALERT – this book is a celebration of libraries as a fundamental and necessary place where passionate librarians promote reading from the very youngest age.


Cristina Petit has written and illustrated more than 40 books, translated in numerous languages. She has won the Zanibelli prize and the special mention in Nati Per Leggere 2019.

Illustrated by Chiara Ficarelli, selected for the Italian Excellence exhibition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2021.

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