EDITORIALE SCIENZA | FATATRAC - spring 2019 children's books - Giunti Editore

EDITORIALE SCIENZA | FATATRAC
           spring 2019
           children’s books

                                            giunti editore

                              international rights / milano

Giunti Editore – International Division                                                           6/2/2019
Rights List – Children’s Books

                                  New Children’s Titles – Spring 2019
                                   Editoriale Scienza (science/non-fiction)
                                          Fatatrac (picture books)

Editoriale Scienza: Science books, non-fiction

    •   Racconti di scienza: La danza delle rane / Tales of Science: The Frogs’ Dance (128 pages) (8+)

    •   A tutta scienza: Voglio la Luna / About Science: I Want the Moon (160 pages) (8+)

    •   A tutta scienza: Con le mani nella terra / About Science: With Your Hands in the Earth (96 pages) (8+)

    •   A tutta scienza: Piante in viaggio / About Science: Traveling Plants (144 pages) (8+)

    •   A tutta scienza: Le grandi macchine di Leonardo / About Science: Leonardo’s Machines (144 pages) (8+)

    •   A tutta scienza: Da grande farò / About Science: When I Grow Up I Will Become … (144 pages) (8+)

    •   Donne nella Scienza: Mary Anning, La cacciatrice di fossili / Women in Science: Mary Anning, The
        Fossil Hunter (128 pages), (11+)

Fatatrac: Illustrated picture books, and Art boxes

    •   Tina & Gigi / Tina & Gigi, a new series by Andrea Rivola (board books) (2+)

    •   Il primo viaggio di Giovanna / Giovanna’s First Trip, by Sara Colaone (hardcover, 32 pages) (3+)

    •   Carte in tavola: A scuola di parità / Carte in Tavola: Learning About Equality (story cards) (3+)

    •   Conte incantate / Enchanted Tales (hardcover, 32 pages) (3+)

    •   In famiglia / In the Family, by Sandro Natalini (hardcover, 32 pages) (3+)

    •   Luce / Light (hardcover, 32 pages) (3+)

Editoriale Scienza: Science books, non-fiction

La danza delle rane / The Frogs’ Dance

Author: Guido Quarzo, Anna Vivarelli
Illustrator: Silvia Mauri
Pages: 128
Size: 13 x 19,5 cm
Binding: soft cover
Price: € 9,90
Series: Tales of Science
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: April 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

        In the countryside around Scandiano in the second half of the 18th century, Antonio, the young
son of a miller, watches as a bizarre-looking man scours the streams and brooks in search of frogs: thus
begins the partnership between one of the Italian Enlightenment’s greatest scientists, Abbot Lazzaro
Spallanzani, a professor, naturalist and biologist, and a boy of humble origins but who’s intelligent,
curious and eager to learn.
        After being taken into service at the professor’s villa, Antonio will discover a world full of books,
research, and experiments that is radically different from anything that a boy growing up at a country
mill could possible expect. And he’ll make a choice that changes his life forever.

Voglio la luna / I Want the Moon

Author: Umberto Guidoni, Andrea Valente
Illustrator: Andrea Valente
Pages: 144
Size: 17 x 23 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 18,90
Series: A tutta scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: January 2019
Partial English translation: available
International rights: available

    •   2019 is the 50th anniversary of the first human steps on the moon

    For centuries, we humans have been looking at the sky with wonder and amazement. The moon has
always exerted great appeal on astronomers, mathematicians, poets and artists, for whom it has been both
an inspirational font and a mystery to be solved.
    In this book, written by the widely experienced Valente-Guidoni writing team, we will discover how
the relationship between man and the moon has changed over time: from the most imaginative legends to
the discoveries that have revolutionized science, recalling the space missions and technological conquests
that even today allow us to learn more about our mysterious satellite up in the sky.

Con le mani nella terra / With Your Hands in the Earth
Author and illustrator: Emanuela Bussolati
Pages: 96
Size: 22,5 x 22,5 cm
Binding: flexi bound
Price: € 14,90
Series: A tutta scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: April 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

    •   by Andersen prize-winning illustrator Emanuela Bussolati

    This book is an invitation to explore the botanical world, but also to observe nature, to experiment,
and to note down your discoveries and reflections. Starting with key concepts such as energy,
photosynthesis, and the food chain, we’ll discover that plants have been on the Earth for millions of years,
that they are an extraordinary machine without which no animal, we humans included, could live.
    But there’s also space for gaining practical gardening experience, playing with the food chain, and
lots more! In a journey in which science, history, botany, storytelling and gardening are intertwined, in
Emanuela Bussolati’s unique style the theme of “plants” is investigated from different points of view, but
in a way that always underlines the subtle but strong bond that links us to our natural world.

Piante in viaggio / Traveling Plants

Authors: Telmo Plevani, Andrea Vico
Illustrator: Nicolò Mingolini
Pages: 144
Size: 19.4 x 26.4 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 17,90
Series: A tutta scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: April 2019
Partial English translation: available
International rights: available

        A trip to the market turns into a colorful journey for discovering the thousands of plants that
human beings have domesticated ... and that have domesticated us. This is the amazing story of
agriculture, which has forever changed the life of mankind, the landscape that surrounds us, and the
plants themselves.
        Did you know that bananas once had seeds and that almonds used to be poisonous? And that
when tomatoes first reached Europe, they were long thought to be poisonous, too? But plants give us
more than just food, spices, medicine and stories: they can also give us good ideas for confronting the
challenges of the future!

Le grandi macchine di Leonardo: 40 invenzioni geniali, com’erano un tempo e come sono oggi /
Leonardo’s Machines: 40 ingenious inventions, how they were then and what they are like now

Authors: Davide Morosinotto, Christian Hill
Illustrator: Marco Bonatti
Pages: 144
Size: 24 x 27 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 22,90
Series: A tutta scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: May 2019
Partial English translation: available
International rights: available

        During the 23rd Engineers’ Convention, young Leo, who comes from Vinci and they say is the
great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson of the ingenious Leonardo, finds himself in an
animated debate that concerns his illustrious ancestor: one of his colleague argues that Leonardo’s
intelligence is overrated, and Leo is determined to make him change his mind. Thus begins a duel that’s
fought with one invention after another: submarines, airplanes, automobiles and tanks, as well as fans,
screws, cranes and calculators ... 40 machines that were invented by Leonardo da Vinci more than five
hundred years ago, but that are still current and extremely useful today!

Da grande farò… / When I Grow Up I Will Become …
Author: Ariel Spini Bauer
Illustrator: Maria Gabriella Gasparri
Pages: 144
Size: 17 x 23 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 16,90
Series: A tutta scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: available
International rights: available

        Ariel is twelve years old and has one big question: what is she going to do when she grows up? To
find out she interviews ten adults, each of which has done great things in his or her life, and each one in a
very different field: the aerospace engineer Amalia Ercoli Finzi, the astronaut Paolo Nespoli, the educator
Piero Angela, the writer Paolo Giordano, Fabiola Gianotti, director of the CERN in Geneva …
        Each dialogue is full of surprises, humanity, personal details and unexpected sources of
inspiration; fortunate encounters that deserve to be recounted and shared to help many other children
pursue their aspirations as well. “Because all of us in this world,” as Alberto Mantovani states in the
introduction, “have the right to follow our dreams.”

Mary Anning, La cacciatrice di fossili / Mary Anning, The Fossil Hunter
Author: Annalisa Strada
Illustrator: Daniela Tieni
Pages: 128
Size: 14,3 x 19,6 cm
Binding: flexi bound
Price: € 12,90
Series: Donne nella scienza
Imprint: Editoriale Scienza
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available (series sold in China, Korea, and Spain)

         In England in 1812, a thirteen-year-old girl finds the fossil of a strange sea monster, known today
as Ichthyosaurus. So begins her career as a fossil hunter, which in time would lead her to discover the
first Plesiosaurus and one of the first Pterodactyls.
         From a very poor background, Mary contributes to her family’s scarce income by selling the
Ammonite fossils she finds on the beach, but her true passion – and her skill – is rebuilding the skeleton
of creatures that no one has ever seen before.
         Despite lacking formal schooling, she reads and critiques scientific papers and debates as an
equal with the most important scientists and scholars of the day; her only problem is that she’s a woman
and, what’s more, of humble origins ...

Fatatrac: Illustrated picture books, and Art boxes

The Tina & Gigi series, 4 titles

Author and Illustrator: Andrea Rivola
Series: Tina and Gigi"
Imprint: Fatatrac"
Publication Date: October 2018
English translation: available
International rights: available

        Extraordinary illustrations, fun mechanisms, characters and situations in which children can
identify themselves. These are the characteristics of the new Fatatrac Tina & Gigi series. Designed in
every detail for toddlers, the series begins with the volumes proposed above, where elephant Tina, Gigi
the tiger and their friends present themselves with many activities to read, discover and play.

Il primo viaggio di Giovanna / Giovanna’s First Trip

Author and Illustrator: Sara Colaone
Pages: 32
Size: 24,5 x 24,5 cm
Binding: hardcover
Price: € 14,90
Series: Fatatrac picture books
Imprint: Fatatrac
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

        Giovanna, the pint-sized protagonist of Mom Always Comes Home and the creation of famous
comic book artist Sara Colaone, is setting out on her first trip without her parents.
        She takes on her first big adventure equipped with a trolley suitcase, and wearing her favorite
colored polka-dot dress.
        Who knows what fantastic adventures she’ll have to tell her parents about when she gets back!
Just like in the series’ first book, page after page lots of flaps that we can open to find out everything about
Giovanna’s trip and the feelings of the story’s main characters.

A scuola di parità/ Learning About Equality
Author: Irene Biemmi
Illustrator: Sandro Natalini
Pages: 20 cards
Size: 17,3 x 16,3 cm
Binding: cards in a box
Price: € 9,90
Series: Fatatrac picture books
Imprint: Fatatrac
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

        It’s young Sandro’s first day in his new class, and he meets all his classmates: there’s Rosa, who
wants to be an entomologist just like her Aunt Carla, and Andrea, who wants to grow tulips just the way
his grandpa has shown him … by telling the story of the daily ups and downs in the life of Sandro’s
classmates, these cards teach children to overcome prejudices, open up to one another, and recognize that
everyone has the right to follow their own passions and inclinations, regardless of their gender.

Conte Incantate / Enchanted Tales
Author: Sabrina Giarratana
Illustrator: Paolo Domeniconi
Pages: 32
Size: 26.5 x 26.5 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 15,90
Series: large format picture books
Imprint: Fatatrac
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

        Whose turn is it now? Let’s decide with a counting rhyme! This book contains twelve of them
from the pen of Sabrina Giarratana.

        Gentle verses, enchanting illustrations, sweet melodies, and the magic spell is ready. Children
can read the rhymes of the butterfly, houseflies, shadows, thoughts, hair, strings, bubbles, tears, wings,
bonfines, covers, and the stories themselves.

In famiglia / In the Family
Author and Illustrator: Sandro Natalini
Pages: 32
Size: 24,5 x 24,5 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 12,90
Series: large format picture books
Imprint: Fatatrac
Publication Date: March 2019
Complete English translation: available
International rights: available

        Some prefer traditional families, other modern, or even alternative. Each one has its own rules,
and its own ways of existing, for everyone. There is not one family that is identical to another, but all are
deserving of the same respect. For the youngest readers, to learn about family love.

                                   Each one is accepted for what he or she is,
                                      But also for what he or she wants.
                                             Sometimes you fight,
                                      But more often than not, you hug.

Luce / Light
Author: Azzurra D’Agostino
Illustrator: Barbara Vignozzi
Pages: 32
Size: 24,5 x 24,5 cm
Binding: hard cover
Price: € 12,90
Series: large format picture books
Imprint: Fatatrac
Publication Date: March 2019
Partial English translation: (on request)
International rights: available

        How is a badger able to see well at night?
        Who lights his way in the middle of the underbrush?
        Who creates a Milky Way that makes his jaw drop in wonder?

        A fantastic story about the encounter between the small nocturnal animals that populate our
countryside.
        A poetic world brought to life by fireflies, the undisputed royalty of any genuine night out under
the stars.