Pierdomenico Baccalario

Mini Classics. The Odyssey

Classics

The most famous journey of all time, retold as a great adventure for young readers.

Odysseus longs to return home. But the voyage from Troy to Ithaca will be long, dangerous, and full of surprises. He will face cyclopes, sirens, sea monsters, and tempests unleashed by the gods. Only with his intelligence—and his yearning to see his family again—will he find the way back.

An epic tale that has fascinated readers of all ages for three thousand years, adapted in a clear and engaging style for children.
Written by a bestselling author and published in over 30 languages.

Publisher: Einaudi Ragazzi

Target: 8-10

Year: 2015

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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