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Essays
Anne Frank, Diario
(Mondadori, 2019)
Bloc-notes d'un
contre-révolutionnaire : un reportage poétique
(Editions Kimé, 2013)
Jean
Améry. Il Risentimento come morale (Castelvecchi
2016, I ed. Franco Angeli,
2002)
The
Document within the Walls. The Romance of Bassani
(Troubador
Publishing, 1999, II ed. 2004)
Novels
I giorni di Alban
(Giunti, 2023) SHORTLISTED
CAMPIELLO JUNIOR 2024
Una gallina in
cattive acque
(Terre di mezzo, 2023)
Il filo della speranza
(Settenove, 2021)
Una gallina in mongolfiera
(Terre di mezzo, 2020)
Una gallina nello zaino
(Terre di mezzo, 2019)
Così
chiamò l'Eterno
(Stampa Alternativa, 2018)
Gli amici del fiume
(San Paolo, 2017)
Il viaggio di Lea
(EL Einaudi Ragazzi, 2016) Out of stock
El viaje de Lea
(Ediciones SM, 2018)
Lea'nın Yolculuğu
(Hep Kitap, 2020)
La porta di Anne
(Mondadori, 2016) Out of stock
La puerta de Ana
(Ediciones Castillo, 2017)
Il Decamerino
(Mondadori, 2015) Out of stock
Il taccuino di Simone
Weil (rueBallu, 2014)
Short
Stories
Il soffio millenario
(in Aria,
Mediagraf, 2012)
Quarto di
luna (in Miele e latte sotto la tua lingua,
Compagnia delle lettere, 2011)
Diario di
Milaidis de los Angeles Casanova Carmina (in Le
Notti,
Empirìa, 2003)
Surrealism
Il
pescespada e la serratura (Beisler Editore,
2007)
L'alfabeto
dimezzato (Beisler Editore, 2007)
Poems
and artist books
Baci
(Ed. Corsare, 2021)
Le chat âme
(éditions MeMo, 2010)
La Terre
Respire (éditions MeMo, 2008) Out of stock
La Terra respira
(Lapis, 2021)
Quattro
Stagioni (in Annuario di poesia italiana
2003, Stango,
2002)
Tales
Splendide creature
(Settenove, 2024) NEW
OCTOBER 2024
Mirabasso e Altamira
(Lapis 2024) NEW
NOVEMBER 2024
Viaggio di un bacio
(Lapis, 2023)
Lupo di Farina
(Lapis, 2023)
Non temere
(Lapis, 2023)
In quel baule
(Bohem Press, 2022)
Voglio il mio mostro
(Lapis, 2022)
Alza la testa
(Gribaudo, 2022)
Non siamo angeli
(Settenove, 2022)
Le più belle fiabe regionali italiane
(Gribaudo, 2021)
Le più belle storie della tradizione ebraica
(Gribaudo, 2021)
Avanti tutta!
(Ed. Corsare, 2020)
Cu toată viteza înainte!
(Signatura, 2022)
Molto molto orso
(Bohem Press, 2020)
Mi chiamo Nako
(Ed. Paoline, 2020)
La strana storia di Cappuccetto Blu
(Settenove, 2020)
Mamma cerca casa
(Ed. Paoline, 2019)
Ada al contrario
(Settenove, 2019)
La stella che non brilla
(Gribaudo, 2019)
Elia il camminatore
(San Paolo, 2018)
La tigre di Anatolio
(Beisler editore, 2018)
I tre porcellini d'India
(ELI edizioni, 2017)
Se fossi un uccellino
(ELI edizioni, 2016)
Il pigiama verde
(Coccole books, 2016) Out of stock
El vuelo de la familia
Knitter (A buen paso, 2016)
Il volo della famiglia
Knitter (Bohem Press, 2016)
Je m'appelle Nako (Éditions
Le baron perché,
2014) Out of stock
El regalo de la
giganta (A buen paso, 2013)
Il regalo della
gigantessa (Buk Buk 2015)
O presente da
giganta (MOV palavras 2015)
Le
Petit Chaperon bleu (Éditions Le baron perché,
2012) Out of stock
Caperucita Azul
(Ediciones Castillo, 2013)
Gli
occhiali fantastici (Panini, 2010) Out of stock
La coda
canterina (Topipittori, 2010)
Filastrocca
dei sei sensi
and L'ode
dell'acciuga
(in Le più belle filastrocche di tutti i tempi,
Liberamente Editore, 2009)
Il
cavaliere che pestò la coda al drago
(EDT-Giralangolo, 2008)
Aquiles
el puntito (Kalandraka, 2006)
Aquiles o puntiño
(Kalandraka, 2006)
Aquil·les el puntet
(Kalandraka-Hipótesi, 2006)
Aquiles o pontinho
(Kalandraka Portugal, 2008)
작은 점 하나 (Hansol
Education, 2008)
Achille
il puntino (Kalandraka Italia, 2008)
La macchina di
Celestino
(Lapis, 2006)
Pane e
oro (Franco Cosimo Panini, 2004) Out of stock
Nino
Mangialegno (in Parole di legno,
Campanotto, 2002)
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ANNE FRANK, DIARIO
edited by Guia Risari, ill. G. Tomai
Mondadori, Milano, 2019
(ISBN : 9788804718659, pp. 480, € 18)
In the Netherlands under the Nazi occupation the
13-year-old Anne Frank begins to tell her everyday life in
an intimate and personal diary: it is 1942 and the
anti-Semitic laws also affect her family, who to escape
deportation flees to a secret flat, where it survives
thanks to the complicity of friends and
acquaintances. Here Anne, who dreams of becoming a
journalist or writer, never stops writing. When in 1944
the Dutch government launches an appeal to collect
testimonies and war documents, Anne stars to rework her
diary, in view of a possible publication: she imagines it
becoming a book entitled "The house on the back" but
unfortunately does not survive long enough long to see her
dream come true. The "Diary", instead, has come down to
us, and to many readers in the world: today in an edition
more than ever faithful to the spontaneity of the original
drafts, enriched by the illustrations of Giulia Tomai.
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BLOC-NOTES D'UN
CONTRE-RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE : UN REPORTAGE
POÉTIQUE
by Guia Risari, in
AA. VV, "Un ciel de sang et de cendres :
Piotr Rawicz et la solitude du témoin"
Editions Kimé, Paris, 2013 (pp. 131-135)
(ISBN : 978-2-84174-609-5, pp. 480, € 29)
Piotr Rawicz, a survivor of the Lvov ghetto and
of the camps of Auschwitz and Leitmeritz, is the
author of one book on the destruction of the
Eastern Europe Jews, Blood from the Sky. A
fascinating story for the power of his
narrative, the violent beauty of his writing,
his defiance of convention and any standard,
including the testimony. Because, according to
the cruel and poetic terms that are specific to
Rawicz's style, he recalls the assassination of
a people, the chaotic flight of the survivors,
but also to the difficulty of speaking of a
tragedy, but in an oblique and indirect way.
This book will (re)discover a long-forgotten man
and a work through texts of critics and literary
scholars who believe that the Blood from the
Sky, in its splendor, is one of the great texts
of the XXth century and through the testimony of
those who knew Rawicz, an attractive and
desperate character. Here are also collected
some of his scattered and unpublished writings.
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2016
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JEAN AMÉRY.
IL
RISENTIMENTO COME
MORALE
Castelvecchi, Roma, 2016
(ISBN 978-8869446078, Collana Le Navi,
pp. 180, €
19,50)
I ed. - out of stock - Franco Angeli, Milano,
2002
(ISBN 88-464-3402-1, Collana Filosofia, Cod.
495.130, pp.160, €
16,50)
1st
prize
"Parola di Donna" 2003
Fiorino d'argento, "Premio
Firenze" 2002
Award "Parlamento Europeo
Anguillara Sabazia
Città d'Arte" 2002
1st prize "Maestrale San Marco"
2002
1st prize "Il viaggio infinito"
2002
Jean Améry, "non-non-Jewish" writer and
essayist,
was a
particularly sharp and sensitive Shoà witness.
He is especially
known
for three essays of clear philosophical
inspiration - At the Mind's
Limits (Schocken Books, New York, 1986), On
Aging: Revolt and
Resignation (Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, 1994), On
Suicide: a discourse on voluntary death
(Indiana University Press,
Bloomington, 1999) - and for the anti-Flaubert
novel Charles
Bovary, country doctor.
This essay introduces Améry's work and deepens
into some topics
of
Western thought - aging, suicide, the conception
of time and the
individual - but it addresses as well the issues
of the Shoà,
witnessing and literary creation, proposing a
philosophical
revaluation of resentment, as in re-sentir,
the perceptive
faculty and reflexive consciousness, "the
emotional source of any
authentic moral, which has always been that of
the defeated"
(Améry).
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Critics
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I ed., 1999
II ed., 2004
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THE
DOCUMENT
WITHIN THE
WALLS. THE ROMANCE OF BASSANI
Troubador Publishing, Leics, 1999, 2nd ed. 2004
(ISBN 1 899293 66 3, Troubador Italian Studies,
£9.99)
Giorgio Bassani is an Italian-Jewish writer
from
Ferrara, famous
mainly for The Garden of the Finzi-Contini,
The
Golden-Rimmed Eye
Glasses and other novels, brought together
in Il Romanzo di
Ferrara (1980). In this monumental work,
Bassani describes the
life of the Italian Jews under Fascism.
Bassani may be seen not just as a fictional
writer, but as a witness
of persecution of Jews under Fascism; his Romance
is not so
much a
novel but a multifaceted document on Jewish life
in
the Peninsula.
This volume takes into account a close reading
of Bassani, literary
theories on witnessing the Shoà, and the
historical debate on
Italian
discriminatory politics. The book is thus both
literary criticism and
an analysis of anti-Semitism and Jewish
assimilation in Italy. This
second edition has been extensively revised to
take into account
recent opinions on the work of Bassani.
Copyright © Troubador Publishing 1999, 2004
Contents (I ed., II ed.)
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GIORNI DI ALBAN
Guia Risari, ill. F. Gambatesa
Giunti, 2023
(ISBN 978-88-099-438-10, pp. 128, € 18,00)
SHORTLISTED CAMPIELLO JUNIOR 2024
It's a difficult time: Milo's parents do
nothing but argue. Fortunately, Milo meets
Alban, a teddy bear, who involves him in a
thousand adventures. So they explore a snowy
village, travel in rain boots, swim in the sea
chased by a giant octopus… but most
importantly, they meet Gilda. Gilda looks like
a witch, but she's an elderly lady who lives
in a rundown cottage. It's her who explains to
Milo what growing old means and what is
happening to his parents.
A delicate and poetic tale, written in an
elegant and clear style, which intertwines
reality and fantasy.
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UNA
GALLINA IN CATTIVE ACQUE
Guia Risari, ill. A.L. Cantone
Terre di mezzo, 2023
(ISBN 979-12-5996-151-8, pp. 112, € 12,00)
Carmen the talking hen is feeling a little
sad, but she brightens up when she
participates in an animal skills competition,
which she wins alongside the pig Polo and the
goat Moira. The three animals and their
friends are rewarded with a cruise on La
Fenice. However, during a training session in
open waters…
A novel about friendship,
adventure, challenges, and discoveries, filled
with humor and tenderness.
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IL FILO DELLA SPERANZA
Guia Risari
Settenove, Cagli, 2021
(ISBN 9788890860584, pp. 128, € 14,00)
Inspired by a true story, the novel tells the
great women's mobilization of 1968 in Santa
Caterina Villarmosa, a small town in Sicily,
where embroiderers opposed the intermediaries
who underpaid them.
The women's protest led to the approval, in
1973, of a law to protect home work.
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UNA
GALLINA NELLO ZAINO
Guia Risari, ill. A.L. Cantone
Terre di mezzo, 2019
(ISBN 978-88-6189-521-8, pp. 96, € 12,00)
During a day-trip to a farm, young Orazio
meets a hen that convinces him to take her with
him to the city. Carmen will prove to be an
exceptional creature: able to read, write, draw,
solve mathematical problems and much more. And
Orazio, as timid and rambling as he was, will
turn into a sociable and courageous child, ready
for a thousand new adventures.
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COSÌ
CHIAMÒ L'ETERNO
Guia Risari
Stampa Alternativa, 2018
(ISBN 978-88-6222-634-9, pp. 200, € 16,00)
In Genesis we witness the creation of the
world, of Adam and Eve, of Lucifer and of the
angels and the expulsion from Paradise.
But what happens if the Divine Plan is the
result of a series of approximations? If the
sacredness of Creation is substituted by a
craftsmanship? If the Eternal is bored and
suffers from loneliness? If the angelic nature
is overwhelmed by eros? If the Ineffable has
no sense of time and is easily distracted?
Meanwhile, his creatures escape the dangers,
frolic, defy the limits and find themselves
confined to the Earth.
The Immane must admit that matter, with its
charge of imperfection and chaos, has won. He
therefore gives detailed instructions to the
seraphims, and takes a moment, which, from the
point of view of Eternity, is not known how
long it will last. In this colourful and
amused fresco, little pearls of wisdom speak
of creation, love, curiosity, finitude,
justice and power.
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GLI
AMICI DEL FIUME
Guia Risari, ill. G. Rossi
San Paolo, Milano, 2017
(ISBN 978-8821599729, pp. 96, € 12,00)
On the banks of a great river, there live three
friends: Adamo, a shy and curious hedgehog;
Nina, a fierce duck who cannot swim nor fly;
Taddeo, a hare convinced to be a carnivore. They
are small, imaginative and a little cranky.
A joyful novel about the wonder, the fear, the
pleasure of being together. A simple and deep
story; a tribute to The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, to the river, to its
creatures.
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IL
VIAGGIO DI LEA
Guia Risari, ill. I. Bruno
EL Einaudi Ragazzi, San Dorligo della Valle,
2016
(ISBN 978-88-6656-330-3, pp. 224, € 14,00)
SHORT-LISTED STREGA RAGAZZE
E RAGAZZI AWARD 2016 Category +11
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A dense, visionary novel, full of parallel
adventures; a story meant for wandering, getting
lost and finding the way. Full of humor,
nuances, poetry and deep questions, to which we
all must answer.
Why do we live? Why do people die? What is the
sense of pain? Why do growing up and loving
cause so much pain?
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EL
VIAJE DE LEA
Guia Risari, ill. I. Bruno
transl. Sergio Martínez
Ediciones SM, Col del Valle, México, 2018
(ISBN 9786072427464, pp. 208, $ 144,00)
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LEA'NIN
YOLCULUĞU
Guia Risari, ill. I. Bruno
transl. Eren Cendey
Hep Kitap, İstanbul, Türkiye, 2020
(ISBN 9786051923789, pp. 228, TL 28)
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LA
PORTA DI ANNE
Guia Risari, ill. A. Floris
Mondadori, Segrate, 2016
(ISBN 978-88-04-65888-7, Contemporanea, pp. 176,
€ 16,00)
(ISBN 978-88-04-67381-1, Oscar Junior, genn.
2017, pp. 192, € 9,00)
SHORT-LISTED LETTERATURA
RAGAZZI - CENTO AWARD 2016
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When she woke up, Anne had the sensation that
this would be a special day. She felt an
unmotivated restlessness, the irresistible urge
to move and jump, do somersaults and sing out.
She wanted to run to the door of the shelter,
she often stared with a mixture of gratitude and
hope, and beat her palms on the door to be open.
But that was not allowed, she knew it very well.
It is August 1944. At the first light of dawn,
in the streets of Amsterdam, there is a house
where everyone dreams. Peter dreams of green
hills to cross on horseback. Auguste dreams of a
fur. Otto dreams of ships to sail any ocean.
Margot dreams of swimming in the pool. Fritz
dreams of the woman he loves. Edith dreams of
being a little girl again. Hermann dreams of
walking in a meadow. Anne dreams of becoming a
writer.
But the greatest dream, for all of them, is
freedom: they have been holing up in a hiding
for over two years to escape persecution against
Jews and now expect the Allies to erase from
Holland and the world the nightmare of Nazism.
But in this story there is also the dream of the
SS lieutenant Karl Josef Silberbauer: he wants
to capture eight people hidden in an old
building. And that morning, unfortunately, his
dream becomes reality.
For the first time, a new point of view on the
life of Anne Frank and the occupants of the
Secret Annex, in the hours before their arrest.
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LA PUERTA DE ANA
Guia Risari, ill. A. Floris
Ediciones Castillo, México D.F., 2017
(ISBN 978-607-621-699-6, Castillo de la lectura,
Serie Roja, 12+ años, pp. 192)
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IL
DECAMERINO
Guia Risari, ill. E. Macellari
Mondadori, Segrate, 2015
(ISBN 978-88-04-65563-3, Primi Junior, pp. 128,
€ 9,50)
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Ten children, tired of the usual stories told
to them by adults, meet on the top of a hill to
tell each other some tales they invented for the
occasion. Every child evokes surprising and
mysterious worlds, funny, strange or melancholic
characters. Wrapped in that magical atmosphere,
their tales become authentic and moving.
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IL
TACCUINO DI
SIMONE WEIL
Guia Risari, ill. P. Valentinis
rueBallu, Palermo, 2014
(ISBN 978-88-95689-15-9, Jeunesse ottopiù,
n. 6, pp. 148, € 22,00)
SPECIAL MENTION PREMIO LAURA ORVIETO
2013-2015
A philosophic novel that retraces - as a
notebook - the path of an extraordinary thinker,
who lived between the two World Wars and was a
witness to the injustice of her time.
"«Why? What?». Non era facile
rispondere, ma ci provavo. Con serietà. Non
racconto mai storielle ai bambini, non li tratto
mai da piccoli. Non hanno bisogno di bugie.
Quelle le scopriranno più avanti nella vita. Si
meritano invece tutta la verità e la profondità
di cui siamo capaci..."
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IL SOFFIO
MILLENARIO
in Aria, Mediagraf, Noventa Padovana,
2012
(ISBN 978-88-88484-14-3, pp. 198, € 25.00)
Dopo l'acqua, il fuoco e la terra, è la volta
dell'aria, l'ultimo dei quattro elementi
affrontati dalla rassegna di illustrazione I
colori del sacro; degli elementi è il più
"leggero" e intangibile proprio per la sua
immaterialità. Invisibile e impalpabile, è lo
spazio che avvolge l'universo e tutte le cose
che vi abitano, l'indefinita linea di confine
tra terra e cielo, il punto di contatto tra
spiritualità e materia.
(Da "Aria sulla carta... e non solo" di Andrea
Nante)
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QUARTO DI
LUNA
Copyright © Guia Risari 2004-2011
in Miele e latte sotto la tua lingua,
Compagnia delle lettere,
Roma, 2011
(ISBN 978-88-905278-4-5, pp. 192, € 12.00)
Dove si cela la magia dell'eros multietnico?
L'espatrio è lacerazione. Alienazione. Il tuffo
in una cultura
estranea frantuma tutti i riferimenti abituali,
l'identità si
sbriciola nel labirinto di nuovi modelli di
comportamento.
Per trovare l'equilibrio fra due mondi, il
migrante ha estremo bisogno
di relazioni, di calore e di affetto.
E così come nel suo modo di comunicare fa
capolino la struttura
rassicurante della lingua madre, nel suo modo di
amare traspare un
linguaggio del corpo diverso, straniero.
È questa latenza sensuale la protagonista dei
racconti di Miele
e latte sotto la tua lingua: in queste
pagine autori italiani e
migranti ci raccontano la poetica dell'altrove,
l'eros tenero o
violento, fugace o coniugale, di un Paese sempre
più misto,
meticcio, multietnico.
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DIARIO DI
MILAIDIS
DE LOS
ANGELES CASANOVA CARMINA
Copyright © Guia Risari 2003
in Le Notti, Empirìa, Roma, 2003
(ISBN 88-87450-23-4, Euforbia, pp. 176, € 12.50)
My country is the night, says Anna
Maria
Ortese. The
night as
solitude and silence which support the
concentration and the work of
writing, when thought and fantasy, reflection
and invention - far from
lights and voices of the day - can follow their
path and switch on
their inner lights. The night as a
representation of writing which
silences and closes the real voices into the
dark in order to tell
them.
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SURREALISM
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IL
PESCESPADA E
LA SERRATURA
100 IPOTESI CONTRO L'IMPOSSIBILE
Guia Risari, ill. F.T. Altan
Beisler Editore, Roma, 2007
(ISBN 978-88-7459-012-4, Il pescespada, pp. 32,
€ 11,90)
Il pesce spada e la serratura [The
swordfish
and the
lock] is a short
surrealistic text starting with a statement: a
swordfish cannot
look through a key-hole.
A series of explanations to this situation that
- we have to admit -
results to be rather unpleasant (mainly for the
swordfish) are
suggested in 100 aphorisms, each time poetic,
provocative, detective,
romantic, engaged, perfectly rational, all of
them, considering the
premise, possible.
The aphorisms go wonderfully with the images by
Altan who chose
and illustrated with humour some of the funniest
hypotheses.
The aphorisms are a genre speaking to an adult
public. Nonetheless,
they represent for children too a source of
amusement and arouse their
capacity to associate fantastic binomials.
(Suggested age range: from 7 to 107 years)
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L'ALFABETO
DIMEZZATO
STORIE DI COCCODRILLI SCOTTATI E
SCIMPANZÉ
IN
PISCINA
Guia Risari, ill. C. Carrer
Beisler Editore, Roma, 2007
(ISBN 978-88-7459-013-1, Il pescespada, pp. 32,
€ 11,90)
A special alphabetiser, where simple or
composed
consonants receive
the attention they deserve in the end. B, hard
C, sweet C, passing
through GL, GN, H and finishing with W, X, Y, Z.
Playing with funny
alliterations, the author composes 27
surrealistic micro stories, a
never naïf divertissement in the tradition of
Munari and
Scialoja. Illustrated by the witty and
imaginative Chiara Carrer.
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BACI
Guia Risari, ill. A. Calisi
Ed. Corsare, Perugia, 2021
(ISBN 9788899136697, pp. 40, € 19,00)
The protagonists of this book are kisses, which follow
one another in a poetic and original way. Kisses that
surprise and cradle, that have the strength of a storm and
the kindness of a flower, kisses that envelop and make you
discover the universe. A catalog of kisses, because there
is not just one kiss, but millions. (For everybody)
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LE CHAT ÂME
Guia Risari, ill. G. Herbéra
éditions MeMo, Nantes, 2010
(ISBN 978.2.35289.094.2, pp. 48, € 15)
A universal portrait of the cat.
The lyricism of the poem written by Guia Risari
finds its match in the beautiful paintings by
Ghislaine Herbéra.
Every cat is a soul jumping from life to
life...
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LA TERRE
RESPIRE
Guia Risari, ill. A. Sanna
éditions MeMo, Nantes, 2008
(ISBN 978-2-35289-036-2, pp. 36, € 18)
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La terre respire
is a hymn to the beauty of the world. One day two
brothers hear a
heartbeat and throw themselves into an adventure
to find its source. They discover that the Earth
is big and it shelters as many hearts as
destinies...
A sensation of immensity and a very beautiful
meeting between the
poetic voice of Guia Risari and the artist
Alessandro Sanna.
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LA TERRA RESPIRA
Guia Risari, ill. A. Sanna
Lapis, Roma, 2021
(ISBN 9788878748156, pp. 36, € 14,50)
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QUATTRO
STAGIONI
Copyright © Guia Risari 2003
in Annuario di poesia italiana 2003,
Antonio Stango, Roma, 2002
Twenty-one authors, twenty-one life routes,
twenty-one
writings
different for theme and style. Not a yearbook
"of the" poetry, but
"of" poetry.
The poem
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MIRABASSO
E ALTAMIRA
Guia Risari, ill. S. Olivotti
Lapis, Roma, 2024
(ISBN 9791255190189, pp. 40, € 16,00)
NEW NOVEMBER 2024
Two cities face each other: in one, people obsessively
gaze at their own navels; in the other, the inhabitants
await answers to their questions from the sky. A fable
about the quirks of people, about differences, conflicts,
and finally the peace that starts a new life.
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VIAGGIO
DI UN BACIO
Guia Risari, ill. E. Baboni
Lapis, Roma, 2023
(ISBN 9788878749498, pp. 36, € 15,00)
From two petals, one day, a kiss is born that soars
over the world and creates dialogue, encounter,
change. A journey to discover the deep connections that
unite all beings in a single gesture of affection.
An illustrated book about harmony, peace, and
emotions.
(For everyone)
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LUPO DI FARINA
Guia Risari, ill. A. Coppini
Lapis, Roma, 2023
(ISBN 9788878748866, pp. 32, € 14,50)
Flour Wolf is a small and peaceful wolf. He loves to
take walks, make new friends, and shape little
figurines. The fiercest members of his pack try to turn
him into a real wolf, but in the end, they will
understand the strength and value of kindness.
A story about the possibility of standing out from the
group, not blindly obeying, and being oneself. (From 5
years old)
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IN QUEL BAULE
Guia Risari, ill. L. Orsolini
Bohem Press, Trieste, 2022
(ISBN 9788832137224, pp. 32, € 16,20)
If you love to play outdoors, what would you do on a
rainy day? Would you like to explore a dusty old attic?
What if by chance there were a nice mysterious trunk
there? What if, by lifting the lid, you would discover a
fantastic world? A book about playing, transformations and
the imagination that takes you far, but always
together.
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VOGLIO IL MIO MOSTRO
Guia Risari, ill. C. Aran
Lapis, Roma, 2022
(ISBN 9788878748774, pp. 32, € 14,90)
A little girl looses her monster and, desperate, looks
for a worthy substitute with her father. They search among the
monsters of fruit, vegetables and cheese, among those of old things
and even among those of sweets. Nobody seems to be as good as the old
monster who, despite the bad temper, is affectionate and unique. That
same evening, however...
A tale about the imagination, the desire, the
indissoluble ties and a little treasure hunt.
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LE
PIÙ BELLE FIABE REGIONALI ITALIANE
Guia Risari, ill. Fabiana Bocchi
(ISBN 9788858038956, pp. 192, € 14,90)
Dull kings, bitter stepmothers, kidnapped princesses,
cunning peasants... but also talking animals, ogres,
dragons, witches and spells. The Italian regional fairy
tales are a dense and multifaceted universe. It is a
difficult task to confine a fairy tale in one place: it
was born to travel and survives thanks to oral
stories. Some stories are found at the same time in many
places, the details change, but the structure and the
meaning of the fairy tale remain the same. Other stories,
on the other hand, seem tenaciously linked to a
territory. Each of them tells of Italy, its traditions and
its inhabitants.
From Valle d'Aosta to Sicily, twenty
fairy tales full of adventure, wonders, mystery and
magic.
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LE
PIÙ BELLE STORIE DELLA TRADIZIONE EBRAICA
Guia Risari, ill. Cinzia Ghigliano
Gribaudo, Milano, 2021
(ISBN 9788858029435, pp. 192, € 14,90)
The stories collected here tell the spirit,
intelligence, and customs of the Jewish people in a period
ranging from Biblical Antiquity to Modern Times. They are
universal and evocative stories, full of faith and
optimism, of magical and fantastic elements, of questions
and answers.
They mainly revolve around man, his
relationship with others and with divinity, but they also
tell about animals - sometimes wise, sometimes funny - who
talk, laugh, dream and, above all, believe.
A colorful and
very human set of portraits that make you think, learn and
fantasize. A fascinating reading, through which to
discover unique customs and ways of thinking. Stories to
tell and remember. Because remembering helps to
understand.
The future belongs to those who will have the longest
memory.
Baal Shem Tov
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AVANTI
TUTTA!
Guia Risari, ill. D.I. Murgia
Ed. Corsare, Perugia, 2020
(ISBN 9788899136598, pp. 40, € 18,00)
On a boring day, a child climbs on stilts and sets off
to discover the world, taking with him whoever wants to go
with him.
A hymn to friendship, freedom and adventure.
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CU TOATĂ VITEZA ÎNAINTE!
Guia Risari, ill. D.I. Murgia
Signatura, Floreşti, 2022
(ISBN 978-606-9071-63-2, pp. 36, lei 59,00)
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MOLTO
MOLTO ORSO
Guia Risari, ill. L. Orsolini
Bohem Press, Trieste, 2020
(ISBN 9788832137118, pp. 32, € 15,50)
Bobo is a simple and affectionate teddy bear who lives
with a child, whom he loves very much. The child is
named Giacomo. He also loves Bobo, but he would like to
have many more toys and playmates and stories and
surprises... So one day Bobo, to make his friend Giacomo
happy, decides to transform himself into something
different. To tell the truth, his disguises, however
funny and ingenious, are not always very
successful... But, between a laugh and another, Giacomo
realizes that he has a very, very special friend.
A funny story about love, play and being yourself.
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MI CHIAMO NAKO
Guia Risari, ill. P. D'Altan
Ed. Paoline, Milano, 2020
(ISBN 9788831551878, pp. 40, € 14,00)
Nako is a Roma boy who lives, struggles, wants and
hopes, like everyone else. His world is that of the
large family of nomadic peoples.
Nako tells us about his life, his fears, his dreams.
With evocative words and images, we discover the
universe of an ancient and complex culture.
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LA STRANA
STORIA DI CAPPUCCETTO BLU
Guia Risari, ill. C. Pollet
Settenove, Cagli, 2020
(ISBN 9788898947492, pp. 40, € 17,00)
A contemporary and surprising version of the
famous fairy tale, in which nothing is as it
seems.
Little Blue Hood is not docile nor she lets herself be impressed.
The hood is not red, but blue.
The dense forest is not so menacing (nor forest).
The wolf is not so diabolical nor fierce.
But, most of all, the stories are a path leading from mistrust to friendship.
A beautiful adventure with a courageous
protagonist and a very peculiar playmate.
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MAMMA CERCA CASA
Guia Risari, ill. M. Di Lauro
Ed. Paoline, Milano, 2019
(ISBN 9788831551380, pp. 32, € 14,00)
Mummy is looking for a flat, but the search is anything
but easy. Especially since she wouldn't want any home. Mum
is looking for a place open to everyone, in a city that
can welcome all peoples, with doors that open onto squares
where everybody meets and respects each other. It is a
dream in which the whole family starts to believe because
there are utopias that can become reality. An intense,
poetic and essential story, dedicated to those who, even
if they do not find, continue to search.
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ADA AL CONTRARIO
Guia Risari, ill. F. Buonanno
Settenove, Cagli, 2019
(ISBN 9788898947423, pp. 36, € 16,00)
Ada is a little girl who does everything in reverse:
she cries, speaks, eats, walks, plays, writes
backwards.
But this does not prevent her from being happy and
committing herself to making others happy.
A story about the importance of being yourself and
accepting yourself in all possible variants.
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LA STELLA CHE NON BRILLA
Guia Risari, ill. G. Marchegiani
Gribaudo, Milano, 2019
(ISBN 9788858023228, pp. 48, € 12,90)
A little girl, while playing in the attic, finds a
small box containing three mysterious objects. It is her
grandfather who explains the tragic history of those
things, the advent of Fascism and Nazism, the persecution
of the Jews, the cruelty of war.
A delicate and at the same time powerful story to tell
children about the tragedy of the Shoah through words of
hope.
With an appendix of historical and artistic analysis.
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LA
TIGRE DI ANATOLIO
Guia Risari, ill. G. Rossi
Beisler edizioni, Roma, 2018
(ISBN 9788874590575, pp. 64, € 14,00)
Since he was little, Anatolius has
experienced an immense passion for tigers. He
draws felines, wears striped slippers, roars
when he is angry. But the most surprising fact
is that his favorite playmate is really a fierce
and unpredictable tiger in the flesh, who
becomes good and patient next to the child. The
tender and surrealistic story of an unusual
friendship.
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I TRE
PORCELLINI D'INDIA
Guia Risari, ill. V. Valenza
ELI edizioni, Recanati, 2017
(ISBN 9788846 836397, pp. 32, € 4,90)
A wolf and three guinea pigs who, coming from
afar, may not know his terrible secret. Thus,
after a series of attempts, traps and blows, the
wolf finds himself increasingly skinny. The
three Guinea pigs are really tough. And they
have no intention of letting him get away with
it... An amazing ending, an original and
sparkling new version of a classic fairytale
loved by everyone.
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SE FOSSI
UN UCCELLINO
Guia Risari, ill. S. Mulazzani
ELI edizioni, Recanati, 2016
(ISBN 9788846 835659, pp. 34, € 4,90)
A little girl follows the tireless path of a
bird. From the windowsill to the tree, the
roofs, the sky, the sun and back to earth.
The bird is not only an air acrobat, but also a
messenger, combining two universes with an
invisible ribbon.
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EL VUELO DE
LA FAMILIA KNITTER
Guia Risari, ill. A. Castagnoli
A Buen Paso, Barcelona, 2016
(ISBN 978-84-944076-9-7, pp. 36, € 16,00)
The Knitter family is quite an average family,
it includes a father, a mother, two children, a
dog, a cat and a canary. Indeed, quite an
ordinary family, that is until their pet canary
teaches everyone to fly! Everyone develops his
flying style, so much so that when the holidays
come around, the whole family decide to fly to
its destination: a deserted and paradise like
island. The days spent on the island feel like a
dream, but every dream has to come to an end, or
so says the father. And it is unwillingly that
the family prepares to fly back home,
although... Is that true that every dream comes
to an end?
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IL
VOLO DELLA FAMIGLIA KNITTER
Guia Risari, ill. A. Castagnoli
Bohem Press, Trieste, 2016
(ISBN 978-88-95818-72-6, pp. 36, € 15,80)
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JE M'APPELLE
NAKO
Guia Risari, ill. M. Dulain
Éditions Le baron perché, Paris, 2014
(ISBN 978-2-36080-099-5, pp. 40, € 16,00)
Nako lives in a house with wheels, along with
his fears and dreams. He doesn't care what
people call him, he knows he belongs everywhere.
Music is part of his life and he wants to be
free, just like the horses he loves so much.
A story neither sad nor moralistic, just a fresh
approach to a people proud of their history and
lifestyle.
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EL REGALO
DE LA GIGANTA
Guia Risari, ill. B. Martín Terceño
A Buen Paso, Barcelona, 2013
(ISBN 978-84-941579-0-5, pp. 48, € 19,00)
Somewhere, in a remote place, there lives a
woman so big and powerful that her yawns create
the wind, her cries the rain and her laughters
infects people.
She is the giantess, a sort of soul of the
world, who welcomes everyone: plants, animals,
humans. And she knows how to keep the secrets of
the most timid.
A poetic song of a universe ruled by the laws of
harmony and love.
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IL
REGALO DELLA GIGANTESSA
Guia Risari, ill. B. Martín Terceño
Buk Buk, Trapani, 2015
(ISBN 978-88-98065-10-3, pp. 48, € 16,00)
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O
PRESENTE DA GIGANTA
Guia Risari, ill. B. Martín Terceño
MOV palavras, Barueri, 2015
(ISBN 978-85-68590-21-8, pp. 48, R$ 52,00)
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LE PETIT
CHAPERON
BLEU
Guia Risari, ill. C. Pollet
Éditions Le baron perché, Paris, 2012
(ISBN 978-2-36080-054-4, pp. 40, € 15,90)
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A dark forest, a rather boring grandmother, a
little red
cape...Red? No, blue!
This book tells the story of a unique wolf and a
very special little
riding hood.
Lively and brave, the girl does not listen to
any kind of story and
challenges her companion to a special kind of
game...
A modern and amazing version of the famous tale.
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CAPERUCITA
AZUL
(South America and USA in Spanish)
Ediciones Castillo, S.A de C.V., Mexico, 2013
(ISBN 978-6-07463-930-8, pp. 35, $110,00)
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LA CODA
CANTERINA
Guia Risari, ill. V. Lopíz
Topipittori, Milano, 2010
(ISBN 8889210486, pp. 32, € 14)
And if one morning you woke up with a tail
singing
nostalgic Russian songs, what would you do?
Would you call the
firefighters? Or the baker? The tobacconist? Or
the butcher? The
undertaker? Or even the mayor? That's what
happens in a tiny village,
« so small that its name was bigger that
the
village », when Ivan wakes up with a
« beautiful,
long, strong and mint » tail which doesn't stay
quiet a second,
but sings and dances... Mad of joy, the singing
tail will rush the
procession of adults in an unexpected wandering
that is going to make
everybody dazed, happy and a bit wiser.
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FILASTROCCA
DEI
SEI SENSI and L'ODE
DELL'ACCIUGA
Copyright © Guia Risari 2005
in Le più belle filastrocche di tutti i
tempi
collected by Davide Bregola, Liberamente
Editore, Siena, 2009
(ISBN 88-6311-105-7, pp. 172, € 9,90)
An extraordinary collection of the most
beautiful
nursery rhymes ever. Rhymes of great writers and
contemporary poets,
rhymes taken from the folk tradition, dialectal
rhymes and, at the end,
a "workshop" to create funny and fantastic
rhymes.
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AQUILES EL
PUNTITO
(Castilian)
Guia Risari, ill. M. Taeger
Kalandraka, Pontevedra, 2006
(ISBN 84-96388-35-2, Libros para soñar, pp. 40,
€ 15)
Aquiles el puntito is a formation
tale: a
little dot
was born on a white
sheet and sets off on an exploration which is at
the same time a growing process. (Guia Risari)
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ACHILLE IL
PUNTINO (Italian)
Kalandraka Italia, Firenze, 2008
(ISBN 978-88-95933-03-0, Libri per sognare, pp.
40, € 15)
AQUILES O
PUNTIÑO (Galician)
translated by Xosé Ballesteros
Kalandraka, Pontevedra, 2006
(ISBN
84-8464-568-1, MareMar, pp. 40, € 15)
AQUIL·LES EL
PUNTET (Catalan)
translated by Joao Barahona
Kalandraka-Hipòtesi, Pontevedra-Barcelona, 2006
(ISBN
84-934380-0-6, pp. 40, € 15)
AQUILES O
PONTINHO (Portuguese)
translated by Elisabete Ramos
Kalandraka Portugal, Lisboa, 2008
(ISBN 978-972-8781-84-2, pp. 40, € 15)
작은 점
하나 (Korean)
Hansol Education, Seoul, 2008
(ISBN 9788953558960, pp.40, 원 9500)
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LA
MACCHINA DI
CELESTINO
Guia Risari, ill. C. Mariniello
Lapis, Roma, 2006
(ISBN 88-7874-014-4, I due per due, pp. 24, €
11,00)
The traffic in town is grey and chaotic. But
Celestino
has a wonderful
idea: to paint his car turquoise to cheer up the
congested
streets. However, turquoise is not a neutral
colour. Soon
Celestino's car transforms itself into something
else. Birds are the first to
realize it. Then flowers, fish and eventually
the whole town. A
funny, ecological parabola whose protagonists
are an inventive man,
nature and one colour.
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NINO
MANGIALEGNO
Copyright © Guia Risari 2003
in Parole di legno, Illustrated by
Tullio Altan
Campanotto Editore, Pasian di Prato, 2002
(ISBN 88-456-0474-8, Fantasia, pp. 193, € 10)
Since the origins of mankind to the chair, the
wood is
the protagonist
of this thematic anthology which collects
authors for adults and for
children. A passionate literary game to know and
understand trends and
characters of the best contemporary writing.
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