Authors (63)
Alessandra Stanga
Alessandra Stanga is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator based in Italy. Her artistic background lets her move through styles and creative solutions, always preserving her clean and unique style.
Alessandra’s illustrations are evocatively inspired by the 1940s through to the 60s style with a keen admiration for Milt Kahl, Norman Rockwell, J. P. Miller art.
Guitarist, movie lover and curious Designer, Alessandra is always looking for new tricks or technology tools to leash her creativity.
Claudia Petrazzi
Claudia Petrazzi is an illustrator and comic artist of children’s books. She collaborates with French and Italian publishers such as Giunti, Mondadori, DeAgostini, Auzou and Poulpe Fictions. For Il Castoro she illustrated Andrea Fontana’s comic strip Clara e le Ombre, which won the Prix Des Lecteurs Du Var in France.
In 2022, she made her debut as the author of a short comic story for Attaccapanni Press and the Atomi webcomic.
Davide Panizza
Davide Panizza studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and at MiMaster in Milan where he got to know the world of illustration for children. Today he lives and works in Bologna, illustrating adventures or creating board games for children. His latest publications include the three books of the Detective Linus series by Angelo Mozzillo (Battello a Vapore), the picture book Animalicomio by Pino Pace (Gruppo Abele editore) and the two Capitan Bitorzolo early reader books by Andrea Visibelli (Il Castoro).
Elisa Rocchi
Elisa Rocchi is an illustrator who specialises in the children’s sector.
Born in Bologna, after spending a few years in Milan she returned to live in Bologna, together with her husband and two children. Books have always been her passion; as a little girl she loved spending afternoons in the library and dreamed of one day being the creator of the illustrations inside them.
She now works for various Italian publishers (such as Mondadori, Battello a Vapore, Giunti) and foreign publishers and continues to carve out afternoons in the library… in the company of her children.
Federico Taddia
A writer, presenter, TV author and populariser, Federico Taddia collaborates with Topolino, Rai, Radio24 and La Stampa. One of his passions has always been to use the right words to tell the youngest everything that scientists study, look for and discover. He has written books with Margherita Hack, Telmo Pievano, Elisa Palazzi and Antonella Viola. With Teste Toste he won the Andersen Prize for the best science series for girls and boys and with Virus Game he won the Piccolo Galileo prize.
Gloria Danili
Gloria Danili was born in Monza in a house full of history and philosophy books. She worked as a window dresser, set designer for TV commercials and author of children's TV programmes.
Some wonderful "children's" books read "as an adult" marked her turning point towards storytelling and her passion for children's literature.
Today she lives in London in a house full of picture books and children's books, and when she writes she enjoys imagining the characters of those stories perched next to her, preparing her a cup of tea and blowing her ideas for her new stories.
Marco Cattaneo
Marco Cattaneo is a sports journalist and TV presenter. A writer for children mainly on the theme of football, he has published books together with Alessandro Del Piero and Billy Costacurta.
Stefano Garzaro
Stefano Garzaro has spent forty-odd years among scholastic publishing houses, publishing historical investigations in his spare time. He likes rummaging through marginal cultures, walking in the suburbs, listening on the street to stories born from other people’s dreams. Every once in a while, he drops his hood and robs memory banks. He’s not a collector, but if he really had to, he’d collect topographic maps. Is this a flat biography? He prefers to have his real adventures in the stories he writes.
Angelo Mozzillo
Angelo Mozzillo writes stories for children and teenagers. His novels include the series of humorous detective stories Detective Linus (Il Battello a Vapore/Piemme). His latest picture books include La famosa esplosione alla fabbrica della nebbia, Clichy; Non mi aspettavo (I Didn’t Expect…), Terre di mezzo; and Io sono foglia (I Am a Leaf), Bacchilega Junior, the last of which won the Andersen Prize and SuperPrize in 2021.
Dimitri Galli Rohl
Dimitri Galli Rohl lives and works in Lucca, in Tuscany.
With a degree from the A. N. A. D. (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte drammatica “Silvio D'Amico”), he is an actor, director and theatrical pedagogue active throughout Italy.
Since 2016, he has collaborated with Book on a Tree, publishing two children's books; the first, “Il romanzo di Holly e Benji” was published by Mondadori in 2017, while “Kappa O.” for Einaudi (“Carta Bianca” series) arrived in bookshops in the spring of 2019. In the same year, the publishing house Marcos y Marcos published “Il Silenzio dei Gondolieri” by William Goldman, the first translation from American English, while during the “Lucca Comics and Games” event, the special edition of “La Principessa Sposa” - also written by Goldman, and personally curated by Dimitri - also came out with Marcos.
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Gisella Laterza
Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo, or more precisely, in a café in the centre of Bergamo where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin in a high school in the city and runs creative writing courses for boys and girls aged 6 to 99.
She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies and a rewriting of The Divine Comedy for boys and girls for the I Classicini series (EL, 2022).
Streghetta (My Friend is a Witch), Salani 2022, is her most successful series and has also been translated into Spanish (Duomo Ediciones).
Igor De Amicis & Paola Luciani
Igor De Amicis was born in Rome in 1976. Chief Commissioner of the Penitentiary Police, he shares his passion for writing with his wife Paola Luciani.
Paola Luciani was born in Pescara in 1980. A support teacher in primary schools, she invents, imagines and writes her stories together with her husband Igor De Amicis.
Together they have written Giù nella miniera (Down the Mine), selected for the Bancarellino Prize 2017 reading project and winner of the Special Children’s Prize at the Parco Majella Prize 2017. Also for Einaudi Ragazzi, they have written Fugees Football Club, Igor Trocchia. A calcio al razzismo (Igor Trocchia. A Kick to Racism), Roberto Mancini nella terra dei fuochi (Roberto Mancini in the Ground of the Fires), L’ultima verità (The Ultimate Truth) and various titles of the Classicini, Grandissimi and Che storia! series. For Il Battello a Vapore, they have published Il mistero delle lettere senza nome (The Mystery of the Nameless Letters). Igor has also published several noir novels for adults, including La settima lapide (Dea Planeta), O’ Regno (Salani) and Gioventù criminale (Criminal Youth), Piemme. Paola has also published several essays and monographs on the world of education. The pair’s books have been translated in several countries (Greece, Spain, Poland, South America, Japan, Germany, etc.)
Tea Orsi
Ever since she was a child, Tea has loved making up stories, comics and even whole magazines. Fortunately, over the years, her passion for writing has not faded...
Today she is a screenwriter of animated series and an author of comics, books and magazines for children.
She writes in both English and Italian and her days are spent in the company of princesses, fairies and other fantastic characters, always ready to experience fun adventures on television or on the printed page.
She lives in Parma with her family and two cute little dogs and she loves travelling around the world, looking for ideas that can inspire new stories yet to be told.
Carla Anzile
Carla Anzile was born in Pordenone and worked as a children’s theatre entertainer and actress.
She has been a primary school teacher for 27 years.
She made her writing debut in 2020 with the illustrated book Il gatto con i pattini a rotelle (The Cat with Rollerblades) for La Spiga Gallucci and with the mystery novel Uscita di sicurezza (Emergency Exit) for Pelledoca.