Davide Morosinotto,  Pierdomenico Baccalario

Maydala Express

Adventure

A mysterious ticket. A legendary train. A journey that changes everything.

Finally, ten years old and red-haired, lives in the vast railway station of the Grey City and works for the company that controls all the world’s trains, under the orders of the wicked Mr. Mortimer. Every day she dreams of escaping — so when she finds a crumpled piece of paper on the ground that reads “Ticket to the Farthest Place There Is,” she doesn’t think twice.

In a flash, she’s aboard the Maydala Express, an old wooden train bound for the farthest edge of the world. With her new friend Lem — the most notorious young thief in the White City — she’ll travel through the foggy Steam Metropolis, the ever-lit City of Lights, where people ride in creaky old carriages… and many more strange, wonderful places. Their wild and daring journey will lead them to their final, unknown destination.

  • An adventure novel full of imagination and narrative drive, written by two of the most beloved and acclaimed voices in contemporary Italian children’s literature.
  • An unforgettable journey through visionary cities and surprising landscapes — a story of freedom, friendship, and courage.
Publisher: Viaggi Straordinari
Target: 8-10
Year: 2023
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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Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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