Pierdomenico Baccalario

The Greats. The Beatles: The Fabulous Four.

True story

Biography

Before they changed music, they changed themselves.

Liverpool, post-war England. Four boys grow up in working-class neighborhoods, dreaming of something more. With guitars in hand and songs in their hearts, they invent a sound that breaks all the rules — and a band that defines a generation.

A true and compelling story that combines historical accuracy with accessible storytelling.
A narrative nonfiction series that introduces children to global role models, empowering them to think big from an early age.

Publisher: Edizioni EL

Target: 8-10

Year: 2017

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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