Where I live: I was born in Venice, a fish-shaped city whose streets are canals and the the buildings are built in reverse-Gotchic style, supported by the bones of ancient woods. Every morning the women exchange cups of coffee from their balconies, eight or ten metres for the ground, and the cats stroll at their feet or above their heads. Here the neighbourhoods are called sestieri, the streets calli, the squares campi, the wine ombra.... If you’ve lived here for the first six years of your life, you’ll always have the feeling that the reast of the world is somehow strange.The kind of books I write: Fiction for pre-teens, picture books and short stories for toddlers. I write in rhyme and prose, detective stories, pink novels and geography books. Humour is the thread, along with an attempt at showing that life is better once you overcome prejudice and contrasts of any kind (between sexes, age groups, cultures…)
My favourite writers: Italo Calvino, J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Marie-Aude Murail, Michael Ende, Michael Foreman, Daniil Charms, Quentin Blake, Neil Gaiman, Astrid Lindgren, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen...
Farfallaria è un meraviglioso albo illustrato per bambini ricco di poesia e magia che sottolinea la bellezza e il coraggio della vita attraverso una scrittura lirica e profonda. Un picture book, con illustrazioni caratterizzate da un’esplosione di colore ma delicate ed evocative, che celebra la leggerezza e la gioia della vita e della scoperta. La piccola farfalla, infatti, vola di luogo in luogo alla ricerca del posto perfetto. https://ilmondodichri.com/farfallaria/
Uno splendido albo scritto da Livia Rocchi e illustrato da Rossana Bossù. Caducità e gioia di vivere, nemici che si scoprono amici, leggerezza e magia dei colori. "Chi vuol esser lie[ve], sia, di doman non c'è certezza".