Simply Heroes. Peppino Impastato, a free voice – vol. 4

Biography

Ordinary People Who Did Extraordinary Things

Born in 1948 in Sicily, in a mafia family, guarantees a very specific future. But Peppino Impastato won’t stand for it and rebels. In an era when speaking out means dying, he opens a free radio station and uses it to expose the crimes he witnesses every day. In an era where the mafia is based on terror, Peppino dares to make fun of the powerful, jokes about them, ridicules them. A sin that is unforgivable, and he pays for it with his life. But thanks to his sacrifice, others find the courage to rebel.

  • A series of immediate and genuine books, where the ordinary is extraordinary and even the smallest gesture can make a difference.
  • An authentic source of inspiration to face life with courage and hope.
Publisher: Edizioni EL
Target: 8-10
Year: 2017
Author
Davide Morosinotto

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.

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