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Publisher : Splēn edizioni

Pages: 96 illustrated in two-color

Binding: paperback cm 13,5 x 19

Price: € 11,00

Literary genre: fiction for kids,

mythology

Year of publication: 2015

Just great adventures and true heroes can

transform imagination into reality.

So the rocks thrown by Polyphemus turn

into the “Faraglioni” of Aci Trezza, Acis the

shepherd turns into a river that gives the

name to nine towns at the foot of the

volcano Etna, the legendary king

Aeolus lives and rules over the

Aeolian Islands and Orion is the founder

of the city of Messina. The marvelous Sicily

that keeps in check the giant Enceladus had

been great source of inspiration for the

ancient Greeks.

The monsters, the spoiled Gods, the Giants,

the innocent shepherds, the Cyclops, the

witches and the heroes that once inhabited it

live again in this first compilation made by

seven suggestive mythological stories.

Written and illustrated by

Riccardo Francaviglia

Myths

in Sicily(volume 1 di 2)

“Thunderbolts”

The AuthorRiccardo Francaviglia was

born in Catania in 1975. He

wrote and illustrated several

children books known in Italy

and abroad.Some of the most popular are Il

Gigante Piscione, Il Cacciatore di nuvole

and My great, great, great, great, great

Grandfather was a warrior, also

published in England, Portugal,

Canada and Korea.

He shares his life and most of his

work with Margherita Sgarlata with

whom he also realized apps and

interactive books for smartphone

and tablets. Narrator, actor and

puppet master, he brings his shows

and his stories around enticing

hundreds of children and families.

Riccardo teaches Illustration

techniques at the Accademia delle

Belle Arti in Catania.

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Pages: 96 illustrated in two-color

Binding: paperback 13,5 x 19 cm

Price: € 11,00

Literary genre: fiction for kids,

mythology

Year of publication :2015

The adventures of daring heroes, spiteful

gods, beautiful women and terrible monsters

around the forests, lakes and cities of Sicily

continue in this second volume.

We will descend in the netherworld in the

company of Hades and beautiful

Persephone, abducted while playing at the

lake of Pergusa. The island of Ortigia

becomes the setting of the infatuation of

the god Alpheus for the nymph Arethusa.

Next we’ll meet the mighty Heracles and his

twelve labors. And what about mount Etna?

It’s right there that Hephaestus has his

workshop. Lastly we’ll fl y over the island

with the feathered and waxed wings of

runaway Daedalus to arrive at the court of

king Cocalus.



Myths

in Sicily(volume 2 di 2)

“Thunderbolts”

The AuthorRiccardo Francaviglia was

born in Catania in 1975. He

wrote and illustrated several

children books known in Italy

and abroad.Some of the most popular are Il

Gigante Piscione, Il Cacciatore di nuvole

and My great, great, great, great, great

Grandfather was a warrior, also

published in England, Portugal,

Canada and Korea.

He shares his life and most of his

work with Margherita Sgarlata with

whom he also realized apps and

interactive books for smartphone

and tablets. Narrator, actor and

puppet master, he brings his shows

and his stories around enticing

hundreds of children and families.

Riccardo teaches Illustration

techniques at the Accademia delle

Belle Arti in Catania.

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The young Colapesce tells us two

worlds: one below and one above.

One silent, magical, mysterious, the

other loud, pompous, hectic. His pure

gaze, his marvelous explorations, are

colored by poetry and melancholy,

one of the most beautiful

Mediterranean legends. A story in

rhyme Rich of strong feelings, which

covers with a veil of salsa the soul of

the listener. In the CD, Riccardo

Francaviglia’s narrator voice is

accompanied by six popular songs

composed and played by Laura

Francaviglia.

Riccardo and

Margherita

Nickfish

Book + CD

Authors


e Margherita Sgarlata

Riccardo Francaviglia and Margherita

Sgarlata live in the province of Catania

and are husband and wife: he writes

stories and draws, she colors her. Their

first book was published in 2000, since

then they have illustrated and written

about thirty books, manuals and

booklets for children, some of them

published in Switzerland, Germany,

England, Korea and Portugal. Their

illustrator activity was put into service

by Association of Italian Scouting for

which they made the calendar of

centenary and two commemorative

stamps. Riccardo teaches “Illustration”

at the Catania Academy of Fine Arts

and promotes reading in schools by

organizing and managing, together with

Margherita, workshops of narration.

Together they carry their figure theater

performances, scattering old Sicilian

stories and fairy tales, re-reading them

with their typical irony highly

appreciated by the audience.

Andersen Prize Finalist 2017

Best Book for Children 6-9 years

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Pages: 48 illustrated in color

Binding: hardcover 26 x 24 cm

Price: € 17,00

Year of publication : 2015

Little Toni decided to spend a day

with his dad and write a theme to

bring to class: “What daddy does at

work”. But his father is a pirate, the

dreaded Mordilosso! A dad, however,

is always a dad and along with his

crew will find the way to not disfigure

with his son and teacher.A fun

adventure in rhyme to read, listen and

sing. In the CD, Riccardo Francaviglia

reads the story, there are also six

piratical songs composed and played

by Laura Francaviglia.

Riccardo and

Margherita

Captain

Mordiloss

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Price: € 17,00


Ever since his birth, Jim's mother

knew that he was a special child. In

fact, in a very short time it proved to

be superior to all the other children,

excelled in all he did and for this

reason was considered the biggest kid

of the West and became Sheriff of

Bigtown.

But kids do not have to grow too fast

and Jim rediscovers during a challenge

the beauty of being kids and playing.

Riccardo and

Margherita

The Biggest

Kid of the

West

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Binding: hardcover 21 x 29,7 cm

Price: € 17,00


Co-edition: Yes

(September 2018)

“One day the Pipi Giant left in the

sun, he was looking for a place to go

do number one…” a mile-old urgency

that is the cause of so much trouble

and humiliation for a poor giant. On

his journey he meets knights,

sovereigns, princesses ready to ask for

his help, but equally ready to insult

him when they find themselves

immersed in a strange lake of

yellowish color. But it's just her pee

that eventually transforms the giant

into a hero!

Riccardo and

Margherita

The Pipi

Giant

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Price: € 12,00


Taken from a fairy tale

of Giuseppe Pitrè

A clever fox, a young man pretending of

being an Earl, a king and a beautiful princess

are the characters of this old tale, a redrafted

version of the folk tale Puss in Boots.

Puss in boots is one of the most famous folk

tales but few people know that the story not

always has a cat as a main character! In an

ancient folk version, the main character is a

fox. This is the case of Fox Giovannuzza or the

Clever Fox, passed down by two great

passionate researchers of folk studies:

Giuseppe Pitrè and Laura Gonzenbach.

Giuseppe Pitrè

Giovannuzzaor the Cleaver Fox

Illustrated by

Angelo liccirdello

The Illustrator

Angelo Licciardello was born

in Catania on the 21st of

December 1990, the day of

the Autumnal equinox. Since

he was a child he has preferred

to express himself using

drawing instead of words.

This is why after attending the

Art school he applied for the

Fine Arts Academy and his

drawings right from the start

travelled around Italy due to

his participation to some

exhibits.

Fox Giovannuzza, or the Clever

Fox is his first children’s book

as an illustrator.

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Binding: hardcover cm 22 x 22

Price: € 12,00


Taken from a fairy tale

of Giuseppe Pitrè

A young man in love, a spoiled princess, and

one, two, actually no three precious secrets

to keep! This is a little known, funny tale,

from our folk literary Italian tradition.

The Princess with the Horns is a very old folk

tale, that it is believed to date back to the

Fifteen century. Throughout the centuries,

having been passed on orally to one

generation to the other like the game of the

wireless phone, it had slightly changed,

because whoever told it either added

something to the narration or removed

something out of it. It is thanks to the work

of two great passionate researchers of folk

studies – Giuseppe Pitrè and Laura

Gonzenbach – if this tale hadn’t been lost

and had arrived to us.

Giuseppe Pitrè

The princesswhit the Horns

Illustrated by

Carmelo Petronio

The illustrator

Carmelo Petronio was born on the

1st of June 1994 in Adrano, a small

town at the foothill of Etna,

holding a sheet of paper and a

pencil in his hand. He moved to

Catania at the age of fourteen to

fulfill his dream to become a great

artist: in Catania he learned to use

watercolors, chalk, charcoal and

even oil-based paint, finding out to

have not only a great passion for

drawing but also for painting. Once

he had finished Art school, he

enrolled in the Art Academy.

His adventure in the field of

illustration started this way, with

the help of some magical objects –

the pencil and the brush – like the

ones used by the main character of

the tale the Princess with the Horns.

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Binding: hardcover cm 22 x 22

Price: € 12,00



Roberta Angeletti

Whit the

Wings

The illustratorRoberta Angeletti was born in 1964 in

Civitavecchia. After graduating from the

Accademia delle Belle Arti (Academy of Fine

Arts) in Viterbo, she began teaching in

junior and senior high school, dedicating

time and effort particularly to school

projects such as drama activities, film clubs,

exhibitions, workshops, etc. Her career as

an illustrator began almost by chance in

1995 when she participated in the

Illustration Competition of the Bologna

Book Fair and was selected as one of the

winners.

Her works have been published by various

foreign publishers since 1996 (Villarica

Editora, Brasile, and Grimm Press,

Taiwan), as well as De Agostini, for

whom she illustrated four books in the

series entitled “A spasso con…” (Travelling

with…), supervised by the British

Museum Press, the editor of the project.

This series, co-published by a number of

foreign publishers, was officially presented

in the Louvre Museum Bookshop in

Paris, where an exhibition of the original

drawings was set up by the Réunion des

Musées Nationaux (1998).

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Binding: hardcover cm 24 x 22 whit flaps

Price: € 20,00


Co-edition: Yes

(July 2018)

Placing wings and flying out is an ancient

dream as the world. It is the most

accomplished picture of freedom, the best

understood, the one best suited to our desire

to be free! This book proposes a path (plane)

of reflection on the subject of freedom.

Talking are coming out a thousand of

questions. And the answers that children give

try to reveal the meaning of their

discoveries, the same ones that accompany

them in their growth and the conquest of

independence... and freedom!


Roberta Angeletti

Whit the

Heart

The illustratorRoberta Angeletti was born in 1964 in

Civitavecchia. After graduating from the

Accademia delle Belle Arti (Academy of Fine

Arts) in Viterbo, she began teaching in

junior and senior high school, dedicating

time and effort particularly to school

projects such as drama activities, film clubs,

exhibitions, workshops, etc. Her career as

an illustrator began almost by chance in

1995 when she participated in the

Illustration Competition of the Bologna

Book Fair and was selected as one of the

winners.

Her works have been published by various

foreign publishers since 1996 (Villarica

Editora, Brasile, and Grimm Press,

Taiwan), as well as De Agostini, for

whom she illustrated four books in the

series entitled “A spasso con…” (Travelling

with…), supervised by the British

Museum Press, the editor of the project.

This series, co-published by a number of

foreign publishers, was officially presented

in the Louvre Museum Bookshop in

Paris, where an exhibition of the original

drawings was set up by the Réunion des

Musées Nationaux (1998).

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Binding: hardcover cm 24 x 22 whit flaps

Price: € 20,00


Co-edition: Yes

(July 2018)

This book proposes a path of reflection on

the subject of love. Talking are coming out a

thousand of questions. And the answers that

children give try to reveal the meaning of

their feelings, the same ones that accompany

them in their growth and understanding of

love.

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