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I dreamed of an elephant.He didn’t look like

anything special.He was big, clumsy and heavy...

just like an elephant...

A little girl dreams of an elephant. And her elephant has a dream. A dream with a fresh breeze scent and sparkling with stars.

As if to show that a squared dream can be more vivid than reality, the author of Ciacio presents us an unex-pected and engaging good night book.

A book for the sweetest good night.

Sarah Khoury (1984) graduated in Painting from Accademia di Belle Arti (the Academy of Fine Arts) in Venice in 2008. She currently lives and works in France. The “orsiglio” (bunny-bear) Ciacio, a character inspired by her childhood puppet, is the protagonist of her works published in Italy: Ciacio e il mare, Je t’aime, Ciacio al Polo, Ciacio in Amazzonia, Ciacio in Campagna, and Ciacio nel bosco, all published for Lavieri.

Sarah KhouryThe Elephant’s Dream

24x24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. From: 3 years.

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Ilaria Cairoli, Alberto CasagrandeTram!29 cm, hardcover (With Folded pgs)., 48 pages, . Age: 5-9 years.

Wheels slide on tracks, a long arm hooks it to the sky: so the cable car zips through the streets. It hangs downtown, high-end shops, decorated streets, but it also roams around the park, in the market area, in the most colourful squares.

But what do cable cars dream?

The cable car goes through the city. It is its he-art, its soul, its movement. Its passing by never go-es unnoticed, with its rowdy and gentle clank on the streets. It welcomes and carries the most different people, weaving a close network of relations.

A book to shed a new light on the ur-ban geography and people, creating an unusual and surprising point of view, observing the city through and around a cable car.

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Daniela PareschiUgly Ducklyng21x29 cm, hardcover, 44 pages. From: 5 years.

The fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen still has a lot to say and Daniela Pareschi, with her perfect merge of classic taste, personality and irony, deliver us her take on this tale.

Each illustration takes us a step further in the world of self-acknowledgment, letting us disco-ver the bravery of the little egg-armoured ex-plorer, as delicate as the colours used to depict him, yet persistent and determined.

The complications of being unique and diffe-rent from the rest, just like the style of Pareschi herself, bring us to see and feel the character and, inevitably, to support the duckling and cheer for the happy ending.

Daniela Pareschi is an illustrator, art director and set designer. Among her published works, the 2016 calendar of “La città del sole”. In 2018 her works have been di-splayed at the Illustrators’ Exhibitions of the Children’s Book Fair of Bologna, gaining her the special mention “Pitti Bimbo”. For Lavieri she has already illustra-ted Aiaccio (2018).

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Eglefino is really funny! He has big protru-ding eyes and an unusual crest. He is all co-lored as if buckets of paint had been thrown on him, and his two big pink and green feet make him look even more bizarre!

His greatest desire is to be the character of a story, hopefully a famous one! Will he succeed?

A book to boost self-esteem in the youngest readers.

Laura Carusino, Erika De pieri

Eglefino Cha Cha Cha24 cm, hardcover, 32 pages, . Age: 3-5 years.

Si aggiunse l’allocco e poi la civetta.Eglefino si ritrovò, senza pensarci, a fare quello che faceva di solito: contare i passi al ritmo di quei suoni.

– Uno, due...Sussurrava Eglefino.– Uh Uh Uh!Rispondevano loro.

– Uno, due –, ribatteva Eglefino.– Fiu fiu fiu! –, rispondevano all’unisono.Sembrava un musica, una canzone al ritmo di un cha cha cha. Eglefino iniziò a muovere un piede, poi l’altro.Ora il bacino e poi il sederino.

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Sold for: – Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galcian

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Erika De PieriThe unexpected event21x24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. From: 3 years.

Bear likes to do the same thing all the time: sleeping, fishing, eating... having a pee and a poo. That was all he needed... nothing more!But an unexpected event can always happen in life, the crucial thing is not to lose one’s head!

A book to pamper yourself

a little bit!

Aprì l’ombrello e iniziò a cullare,non fu più solo, nel freddo polare.

La vita dell’orso prese un altro sapore,dall’imprevisto si era schiuso un amore.

Erika De Pieri made her debut in 2005 with La saponificatrice (Becco Giallo), which earned her a mention as best newcomer at the 2006 Carlo Bosca-rato award.

For Lavieri she published the children’s books La bambina Cioccolato (2009), Gedeone tigre in pensione (2010), Il principe az-zurro ma proprio azzurro (2011, written by Gianna Marrone) and the comics Il castello scomparso in mare. L’incredibile sto-ria di Ippolito Nievo (2011, Miro Missaglia Award) and Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà. Esploratore di pace (2013).

Since 2012 she has been working for Atlantyca dreamfarm, Edizioni Paoline and Nuinui. For Da-mi she deals with several series and the “damini” collection. She is the creator of the carachters of some internationally successful series such as Dinoamici (De agostini) and Melowy (Fabbri).

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Sold for: – English / India

Optioned for: – French– Spanish, Catalan

Sarah KhouryCiacio in the Wood15x21 cm, softcover, 28 pages.

What’s Ciacio doing in the wood? He wants to chase a strange butterfly, but how many obsta-cles he encounters along the way! He should spend the night outside, but, luckily, new friends show up.

Titles in “Ciacio Series” are already sold for Spanish, Chinese, French

Ma poi rimango impigliato tra i rami

La seguo in silenzio,

e altri morbidi, per fortuna!

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Paolo Cossi, Massimiliano FrezzatoThe Bewitched Cat24x21 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. Age: 4-99 years.

A cat, a normal cat, actually pretty banged up and mangy, got bewitched one day. How-ever he does not complain about this spell, perhaps he’s in love, he is certainly captivated by some lovely kitten. Torn by this, he decides to ask his owner, his little witch, to become a wizard to be able to learn the craft, or at least the secret of a true love potion ...

But the little witch, who heals everyone with her herbs, reveals him there are no love po-tions, all it takes is some courage in declaring him-self to his beloved.

Sold for: – Russian– Spanish, Catalan

Optioned for: – Ukranian

Over 12.000 copies sold in italy

The versions of Little Red Riding Ho-od – underlines Frezzato in his brief introduction – “are over a million, one for each mother, and in most cases the moms’ versions are far less cruel than the book’s one“.

And in the game of revisitations, as well as in its oral narrative game, Lit-tle Red Riding Hood, stands out more than any other modern tales revealing its strength: to be a “myth” which con-stantly renews itself over time.

In this case the author has regene-rated it – as well as in the pictures – with small additions, highlighted in the text by a different color, which can be skipped if you want to ha-ve a more traditional version and read them only as a further game and level of interpretation.

Massimiliano FrezzatoLittle Red Riding Hood24x18 cm, hardcover, 24 pages. Over 6.000 copies sold in italy

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Sold for: – Polish– Arabian (UAE)

– Spanish– Catalan

Sergio Olivotti The Zooablator13x21 cm, softcover, 80 pages.Age: 6-99 years.

“Zoablator is the name for any device capable of bi-directional translation from a human language into an animal one and vice-versa”.

Finally a book about the long history of instruments that enabled men throughout centuries to talk with animals, or, at least, with the most talkative ones.

Massimiliano FrezzatoThe Unlucky Kitten24x21 cm, hardcover, 56 pages. Age: 4-99 years.

Who said that black cats bring bad luck? And if it was the opposite? But what if the butterflies were jinxing it?

The young protagonist of this book may not be able to give us an answer, but he might have an idea on how things are. Let’s follow him then, through bottles of milk poured under teetering lad-ders, reck-less road c r o s s i n g s and improb-able falls.

Sold for: – French

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Collodi’s PinocchioIllustrated by Massimiliano Frezzato24x21 cm, hardcover, 228 pages.

Edition with full text and rich appendix includ-ing all drawings and works by Frezzato about Pinocchio (cards, calendar, games, portfolio and more).

Sold for: – Russian

Sold for: – Russian

James Matthew Barrie - Massimiliano FrezzatoPeter and Wendy 24x21 cm, hardcover, 168 pages.

Peter Pan does not need to be introduced; not just because, sooner or later, he passes in front of every child’s windows, but also for his countless remakes. Yet, like many classics, it is rarely reread in its original version.

Who does remember what happens to Wendy and the lost boys after the young Darlings return to London?

Once again Massimiliano Frezzato decided to travel on the original track again, giving a chance to look at James Matthew Barrie’s genius under a new light, as well as an opportunity for a new translation, faithful to the text and to the tradition at the same time.

For every child, once adult, feels the need to meet him again.

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Massimiliano FrezzatoSha, the Town of the Forgotten Things24x24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. Age: 4-99 years.

Sold for: – s. Chinese

Optioned for: – Spanish– Catalan– Ukranian

In the middle of the desert of time lies Sha, the city of forgotten things.

It is ruled by an old blackbird that takes care of anything coming in: keys, toys, old photographs but al-so words, ghosts and fears.

Everything is ordered by the Lord of Sha: gloves, socks, toys, old records and songs.

Words are evoked; fears and ghosts pampered and nourished as well as dreams. Wars also pass through Sha, because even wars are forgotten.

But Sha is renewed every night: the desert becomes a sea and all houses change their arrangement until the moon dives into the horizon.

Once upon a time there was an old man tired of remembe-ring. And a flying boat tired of sailing

Once upon a time there was the sea tired of domi-nating.

Once there was a mo-ment when the old man and the child, for an instant, we-re again as one.

Sold for: – Russian

Massimiliano FrezzatoThe Flying Boat24x24 cm, hardcover, 52 pages. age: 4-99 years.

Massimiliano FrezzatoThe Tree24x24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. Age: 4-99 years.

The tree man lives alone and peacefully on a hill. He sees time flowing by at his feet and along with it the endless trivial claims of the kings of mice ...

A short story about patien-ce, war, peace and, above all, on the meaning of free-dom.

Sold for: – s. Chinese– Spanish, Catalan

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Biagio Russo, Daniela PareschiAiaccio21x28 cm, hardcover, 64 pages. Age: 5-99 years.

Some people say that Gipsy and Angel never existed. That the story of Aiaccio, the clown of Aladdin Circus, is a legend, passed down over circus generations. We don’t care if it’s true or not, what matters to us is to tell this tale.

A poetic and poi-gnant tale by Biagio Russo, illustrated by Daniela Pareschi.

Sold for: – Russian

Mummy has a baby in her tummy. She says it’s a girl and her name’s

Amelia. At first she won’t be able to walk while I can already go wherever I want. Let’s hope Amelia is as nice as my dog Ugo, who’s really a funny chap… Ho-wever, when I think about it, that does not sound too good…

Luana Vergari, Simona Ciraolo Mummy Has a Baby in Her Tummy24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. Age: 3-6 years.

Sold for:– Spanish, Catalan– s. Chinese– Slovenian

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Luana Vergari, Francesco FilippiniLove On The Head24x24 cm, hardcover, 28 pages. Age: 5-99 years.

Pietro has had Love on his head for some time now. He doesn’t know where it came from and what it’s doing in his hair, he only knows that one morning he woke up, he looked in the mirror and saw it…

Sold for: – French – Spanish, Catalan

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