After studying visual arts in Brescia and earning a Master’s degree in Editorial Illustration at Ars in Fabula, Lorenzo Sangiò began his career as an illustrator, working with various publishers in Italy and abroad. He has a deep passion for nature, cats, and cities, which he loves to depict in his artwork.
Read Again, Nanà!
Picture book
A promise to keep. A looming threat. The power of imagination.
Nanà, a young capybara, lives with the condor Coco in a small village in the Andes. Every day Coco, the only one who knows how, reads the newspaper in to the other inhabitants. Until some news changes everything…
A universal story celebrating the force of imagination, which can foster hope and resist any threat – because no weapon can withstand imagination and the power of stories. War in the words of children, with tact and poetry.
Publisher:
Mondadori
Target:
5-7
Year:
2025
Author
Marco Magnone
Marco Magnone is one of Italy's most acclaimed and sought-after children's authors by schools, festivals, and reading groups. Thanks to these engagements, he meets thousands of young readers every year. His stories, which have earned him two nominations for the Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi Prize, often blend various genres but share a common goal: to explore the profound meaning of growing up. He teaches narrative at the Holden School in Turin and at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
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