Snot & Splash. The Mystery of the Missing Holes
Manlio Castagna
The Lost Flower of the Shaman of K
Adventure
She took him into the world and he kept her safe in it.
Peru, 1986. In a Lima hospital, two children find an old diary and are fascinated by the drawing of a mysterious flower. An unexpected friendship and a journey of a thousand dangers are just about to begin!
- An epic journey from the Andes to the Amazon.
- The discovery of life through the eyes of two twelve-year-olds who face a savage world hand in hand.
- An original and fresh style that makes the readers the protagonists through voices, colours and sounds.
Publisher:
Mondadori
Target:
12+
Year:
2019
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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