My uncle is a cat

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.

Marilisa Cotroneo, born in a small town in Northern Italy, began her journey with a suitcase in hand. After earning a degree in artistic disciplines in Turin, she continued her journey to Rome, where she completed two master's degrees in illustration. For now, her trolley is parked there, where she lives and collaborates with Italian and foreign publishing houses. She creates worlds and characters in her small studio, between a cup of tea and a dog that always steals her shoes. For Feltrinelli, she illustrated Mio zio è un gatto (2023; text by Pierdomenico Baccalario).