catalogue • catálogo • verlagskatalog • lista • catalogue I bambini alla scoperta di… 2 Arte tra le mani 5 Ah, saperlo! 8 Children discovering… Art in the hands Good to know I senza parole 11 I due per due 12 I lapislazzuli 14 Le avventure di Philippe Gratin 20 I misteri di Teo 22 Sì, io sono 23 Le cantastrocche 24 Il Mischiastorie e Gurugù 25 Musichiamo 26 Wordless Two 4 two ization. Stories turns into light The ideas becomes books, art, popular is the passion for publishing shapes pages to read, look, dismantle. At Lap tion of projects and dreams. up and becomes accomplished realiza books, science, art and fiction Wordless books, playbooks, illustrated also for all the adults that do not everything is thought for children and k that our word could give more stopped feeling young. We like to thin t decides to know it; now, it is to colours and happiness to people tha or not the same of ours. you to verify if your predilections are The Lapis-lazuli Philippe Gratin’s adventures Teo’s Mysteries Yes, I am The nursery rhymes songs The storymixer and Gurugu Play with music w w w. e d i z i o n i l a p i s . i t via Francesco Ferrara, 50 - 00191 Rome (Italy) tel. +39.06.3295935 fax +39.06.36307062 e-mail: lapis@edizionilapis.it I Bambini alla scoperta di… FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ON ALL THE SERIES. ALL COUNTRIES 2 size 13,5x24 cm 12 TO RIN O so Vit via Bo gino via Lag via Ro range ma via Acc .delle Scienz Albert e o tor io vi a Gi ol v.Bogin o p.zza C.L.N . Carlo via Al fieri itt i v.Pomb a piazz a So lferin o cor Piazze tta Re P.zza ale Teatro Reale Regio Pa p.zza Caste lazzo Ma llo dama piazza Carlo Albert o via Prin cipeA me pia deo via Ma S. Cazza ria Vit rlo toria Micca Museo Egizio via Ca vour via Gr am piazz sci Ca a v i a M Felicrlo azz e ini via Special mention Prize Cenacolo Editoria e Innovazione via Ga ribald i etro via Pi Se tte mb re via Ro ma I bambini alla scoperta di Bergamo I bambini alla scoperta di Genova Giar din Reali i XX Forthcoming: sells Guides that an more th es 200.000 copi corso Umbe rto Age: +9 Cover: glossy • Interior: full colour images new edition new via This series of touristic guides gives to children a very useful tool to visit cities in original and fun way. Stories, routes, anecdotes and illustrations in watercolours, drives young travellers in discovering not only the foremost monuments in most beautiful Italian cities, but also unexpected corners, less known people and places that did the history.These volumes propose a new way to look around stimulating and fulfilling children’s curiosity. via Sa cchi illustrated by Lorenzo Terranera Em a stazio n u e l e I ne di Po I Nuovrta a 3 L’ARTE TRA LE MANI The titles of the series I bambini alla scoperta di Roma dal medioevo all’età contemporanea €15,00 I bambini alla scoperta di Roma antica €13,00 I bambini alla scoperta di Torino €13,00 I bambini alla scoperta di Venezia €13,00 I bambini alla scoperta di Firenze €12,40 I bambini alla scoperta di San Marino €10,33 I bambini alla scoperta di Bologna €12,50 I bambini alla scoperta di Mantova €12,50 I bambini alla scoperta di Verona €13,00 I bambini alla scoperta di Milano €10,33 I bambini alla scoperta del Lazio €10,33 I bambini alla scoperta di Villa Borghese €13,00 I bambini alla scoperta degli animali a Roma €10,33 English Ancient Rome for kids €13,00 Bologna for kids €11,36 Venice for kids €13,00 Florence for kids €11,36 French Les enfants à la découverte de Rome €13,00 Les enfants à la découverte de Bologne €11,36 Les enfants à la découverte de Venise €13,00 Spanish Los niños descubren Roma Antigua €13,00 4 new Donatella Gobbi Amedeo Modigliani l’inesauribile dolcezza della luna This new volume presents Amedeo Modigliani and his intense universe, inhabited by women giraffe-necked, warm colours and delicates curves. His simply and sincere gesture attained to seize intimate and private dimension of human being. series created and illustrated by Paolo Marabotto Donatella Gobbi Edouard Manet il mistero della pittura svelata Édouard Manet, a group leader, a revolutionary of painting, the father of Impressionism. He searched his inspiration in art masterpieces, and at the same time, he invented a new way of painting. After him, panting was not the same any more. new Playbooks that propose throughout observation and playing, to experience the concepts and the fantasy. A new and fun way to approach children to the artworks of great contemporary artists, to their art and imagery language. Paolo Marabotto Edvard Munch il riflesso che non riflette ci fa riflettere Munch was an untiring engraver and painter, one of the first artists to conceive painting as a private diary, in which personal experiences melt with a reflection about sense of existence. A way between figures and landscapes or mentioned by the memory. Age: +6 • Cover and interior: 12 pages full colour in glossy laminated thin cardboard • Price: € 6,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ON ALL THE SERIES. ALL COUNTRIES size 21x21 cm 5 Donatella Gobbi Filippo De Pisis la voce silenziosa delle cose Filippo De Pisis, painter and poet that achieved to seize with a glance the essence of things, and to represent them with few, fast, light touches and colour stains. He dreamed on make beauty immortal. 6 Paolo Marabotto Vasilij Kandinskij il tratto, tratto dal ritratto è diventato astratto! Kandinskij thought that also using only lines and spots,simple shapes and colours, a painting could communicate sensations, represent people and things and tell stories. Barbara Conti Vincent Van Gogh giallo oro, blu cobalto The fascinating path between Vincent Van Gogh’s colours. It will be the direct experience proposed to young readers, to approach them to his most used painting techniques, and to his unequalled way to express himself. Barbara Conti Giorgio Morandi un mondo di oggetti Serena Giordano Paul Cézanne l’occhio che ascolta Bisol - Giaume René Magritte il prestigiatore della realtà Paolo Marabotto Pablo Picasso Dora si è montata la testa Giaume - Roverso Claude Monet riflessi nell’acqua Paolo Marabotto Giorgio De Chirico perché mettere tutto in piazza? Paolo Marabotto Giuseppe Capogrossi e i cieli d’autunno sopra Roma Drudi - Mocci Toti Scialoja Toti & topi new edition Giovanna Giaume Edgar Degas frammenti di danza Degas observes life and seizes beauty in every fragment, he search expressions in movements while figures closes and opens in the space. An invitation in the magic world of ballerinas paintings. Giovanna Giaume Il Futurismo tutto corre rapido 7 illustrated by Fabio Magnasciutti Anna Parisi Ali, mele e cannocchiali La rivoluzione scientifica This book, tell the story of development of first scientific revolution. From Copernicus to Newton the young readers will be able to understand the “new” schemes of cosmos, which would be worldwide known as “classic physics”. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Germany, Greece, Korea, Portugal, Czech Rep., Serbia & Montenegro, Spain, Ukraine The long way of scientific thinking retraced in a simple and fun way. Anecdotes, humoristic drawings and interviews with the main characters of scientific culture of all times (taken from original texts of scientists), joins a text scientific in contents and ironic in writing. series directed by Giorgio Parisi, full Professor of Quantum Theory in Rome University “La Sapienza” Age: +12 Cover: laminated mat Interior: about 200 pages b/w with illustrations Price: € 12,00 8 size 13,5x20,5 cm Ettore Perozzi Il cielo sotto la terra In viaggio nel sistema solare Planets, dozen of new satellites, stars, comets and minor planets. A whole universe to discover. This book is an attempt to tell to children, with absolute simplicity, what happens when we talk about Planetary Science. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Spain, Portugal Parisi - Tonello Il filo conduttore L’anticamera dell’atomo The volume examines that period of stunning discovering that took scientists to understand the potentials of electromagnetism, to discover the secrets of thermodynamics and the birth of the atomic theory. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Spain, Portugal, Serbia & Montenegro, Czech Rep., Ukraine Anna Parisi Numeri magici e stelle vaganti I primi passi della scienza This book of the series goes back over the prehistory and classical history, to understand how first discoveries were made, who were Pythagoras, Archimedes and other philosophers and why they are so important for science and history. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Korea, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, Czech Rep., Serbia & Montenegro, Spain, Ukraine Forthcoming: PRIZE PRIZE ANDERSEN ANDERSEN 2004 2004 PRIZE PRIZE LEGAMBIENTE LEGAMBIENTE BEST BEST POPULARIZATION POPULARIZATION SERIES SERIES Dipende Le teorie della relatività 9 i senza parole What does OGM mean? Why do newspapers talk so often about it? And even before that, what exactly is DNA? Clara Frontali Geni Dalle prime domande sull’ereditarietà all’ingegneria genetica Human being interacted in every time with nature, modifying it for his necessities. Man learned to raise and select animals, to cultivate and improve productivity of plants.To obtain long-lasting results humanity had to understand how genetic information is transmitted between parents and son. Genes is a journey following these discoveries in genetics, through the voices of the most important scientists. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Spain size 13,5x20,5 cm All that you have to know about football. 10 size 13,5x20,5 cm Mario Corte Goal! The origins of football. Chinese football, medieval English football and the Florentine one; the legend of football players that saved themselves from revolution because they were in tournèe abroad, the history of Champions League and Golden Ball, the history of European Championship. Rocco’s Milan, Herrera’s Inter Milan,Trapattoni’s Juventus, and Italian football team that won in 1982… Definitively, everything about football. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES new story and illustrations by Lorenzo Terranera Amici… per un pesce Between cars in a hot summer day, from a window to another, two child look each other, exchanging dreams, fish dreams, red green and blue, without words, with colours of fantasy. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Emanuela Nava Che meraviglia! illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini A girl find in the sand some white beads, she launch them and she plays, but at certain moment one bead fall and break. And, wonderful, from the bead appears a surprise! FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Xavier Blanch Ho trovato un pettirosso illustrated by Francesc Rovira It is a cold night and it is snowing. A child from his window suddenly see in the wind a robin, that looks wishing enter to warm up… UNAVAILABLE Clara Sabrià Solo tu mi vedi illustrated by Mabel Piérola A group of children find in school's garden a little and very special gnome. A girl decides to take him with her. But what a fun… The “old” ones can't see him! UNAVAILABLE The “wordless” picture book series offers to younger readers the possibility to read before learning to read.The pictures, rich in details, enable children to follow easily the events in the story. Age: +3 Cover: full colour glossy cardboard Interior: 36 pages full colour Price: € 10,00 size 20x20 cm 11 i due per due Little, brighting, square books, in which dreams and fantasy,colours and stories fits in the hand of every child. Age: +5 • Cover: full colour glossy cardboard Interior: 24 pages full colour • Price: € 11,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 12 size 20x20 cm new Monica e Rossana Colli Storia incredibile di due principesse che sono arcistufe di essere oppresse illustrated by Irene Bedino What happens when a princess acts like a young female dragon and the dragon like a princess? Will it be enough to change roles to be happy? An amusing story that narrates in an original way how could be easy to change when the others accept us as we are… new Guia Risari La macchina di Celestino illustrated by Cecco Mariniello Traffic in cities is grey and chaotic. But Celestino have a great idea: paint his car in turquoise blue to brighten the clogged streets. But turquoise is not a neutral colour… Soon Celestino’s car becomes something else… An amusing environmentalist parable with as main character an imaginative man, and lack of nature and colour. new Nicoletta Bertelle La mia famiglia illustrated by Maria Loretta Giraldo A delicate story that makes us discover with simplicity and spontaneity the beauty of family. An “unusual” voice, a mysterious and fun narrator that will bring the young reader between the coloured pages of the book helping him to discover his identity… covered up between images and words, strictly in blue! Emanuela Nava Quando i cani non avevano la coda illustrated by Cristiana Cerretti Once upon a time, lot of time ago, not all the animals were what they are today. Some little differences surely not unimportant, but unexpected. Some extravagant and important changing, that reveals us a curious and original universe that makes us smile and, why not? Reflect on changing. text and illustrations by Linda Ferri Tutto il respiro del mondo While a child is sleeping, his breath runs after a little butterfly out of the windows. It begins in this way an adventurous light flight, across the sky, in the silent breath of forests, in chaotic cities. Between oceans and volcanoes, elusive and impalpable the breath becomes a dream that follows desires and fantasies of the younger with candour and beauty of childhood. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Korea Forthcoming: Pronta per la scuola A scuola con Bianca e Lupita 13 i Lapislazzuli Like unique and precious stones, the Lapis-lazuli are books written in a simple and poetic language. The books approaches lightly the most important children’s life topics. Each book is enriched by evocatives and unique illustrations. new new new edition new Contains DVD Best book 2005 by a jury of experts consulted by Liber Age: +6 Cover: full colour glossy cardboard Interior: 32 pages full colour Price: € 12,00 14 size 19,5x27,5 cm adapted by Alba Meo La tempesta illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini The book is a rewriting for children of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, and it save the precious texture of images and the exquisite musicality of the language. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Lucia Panzieri Fratellino Zuccavuota illustrated by Samantha Enria There is a little brother in mum’s belly, and mum became little by little very beautiful, but also funny and strange: she hums, she fall asleep and above all she has craving of pumpkin… FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Guido Quarzo Nella casa del signor Tuono illustrated by Fabrizio Monetti When the little Blue bird shakes his wings a new colour appears.And the colours let children and teachers play.When Mr.Thunder closes the little bird in cage, everything changes. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Emanuela Nava Ahi + giochi - male hai illustrated by Chiara Carrer An amusing way to fight the fear of illness that every child had. Little tales and happy stories to live a “painless” and coloured adventure. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Thierry Lenain Bisognerà illustrated by Olivier Tallec If the gun barrels could turn into flutes for shepherds, if the famines could turn into rivers of water and milk… From an island, far and far away, a child looks the world and decides to dream. UNAVAILABLE Emanuela Nava W le mamme buone? illustrated by Cristina Pieropan Mums? What a big disaster! Unmindful, untidy, ever absent minded, never quiet. But good, so good, like the sweetest angels, and beautiful, so beautiful! FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Susanna Mattiangeli Quattro zampe una testa una corazza illustrated by Gianluca Maruotti Marta the Turtle, during an unfortunate card game loses her breastplate. Starts in this way the story of a trip full of many strange encounters. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 15 Ennio Cavalli Buonanotte buio illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini Fear of darkness is the queen of each children’s night of but the young protagonist decides to try to face all that black inhabited by unknown creatures. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 16 Elisabetta Jankovic Un regalo per Goumba illustrated by Pedro Scassa “What is Christmas?”. A dream for all the children, a dream whom Goumba also entrust. But for Goumba the wish of his country far away is more important than any other gift. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Ruiz Mignone - Quarzo Un elefante non è una caramella illustrated by Pedro Scassa It is strange that an elephant overlook at a child room to ask him to hide him: where you can hide an elephant? An elephant is not a candy! FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Georg Maag Il giardino illustrated by Irene Bedino A sweet book, full of chubby clouds and emotions. Enchanting illustrations and simple words to tell the feelings of a girl that faces the pain for her father’s death. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Poland Lo Scaramazze Io credo che la Befana A child prepares a research about Befana. Between news and hypothesis thousands of question rises: the sweets that we find in the stocking are made by the Befana? In which relationship is she with Santa Clause? FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Aquilino, Cavalli, Cinquetti, Nava, Papini, Roncaglia Pace e toccoterra illustrated by Cerretti, Ghilardi, Magnasciutti, Massari, Scassa,Terranera A collective book in which different authors and illustrators confront each other on the theme of peace. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher Tramonto illustrated by Alessandro Ferraro It is the story of a mask, and of what is under the mask… It is the story of a child born in between, between Italy and Africa, between mind and heart, between earth and sky. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Francesco Guccini Il vecchio e il bambino illustrated by Fabio Magnasciutti An homage to the encounter between childhood and oldness, to the faculty of kids to dream and to adult’s capacity to tell and remember. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 17 Fuori collana PRIZE GRINZANE CAVOUR CHILDREN SECTION Nicola Cinquetti La principessa ranocchia illustrated by Cristiana Cerretti The charm of Russian tales: princes, castles, wizards, witches, spells and… Frogs. A very old tale that tells us sweetly and simply an original love story. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 18 Toti Scialoja Tre chicchi di moca by Teresa Buongiorno Poems for children, but also, and first of all, true poems, poems for anyone had the capacity to enjoy the pleasure of poetry. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Paolo Marabotto Il paese dei colori By means of colours and simplicity, a tale about the encounter of differences and cultures that invites to lay aside fears and differences to leave the heart and the mind available to wondering. UNAVAILABLE Arianna Papini Pareva un gioco FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Aquilino La pecora volante illustrated by Pierluigi Balducci The little sheep Batuffola and her adventures of exploration beyond fields of valley, between amusing encounters with white clouds and the emotion of first big scares. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Silvia Roncaglia Parole di latte illustrated by Cristiana Cerretti FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Korea, France PRIZE ALPI APUANE BEST BOOK 2001 Silvia Roncaglia Incanti illustrated by Arianna Papini FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Korea Nicola Cinquetti Il dono della farfalla illustrated by Cristiana Cerretti FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Di segni e di scritture text and illustrations by Henny Boccianti Carolina and Giovanni retrace the different stages of history of writing, with imaginary travels in far worlds and times. The two young protagonists, while they interrogate themselves, they learn and meet people from the history of different cultures. All this experiences bring them in the writing world: from Sumerians’ cuneiform to Chinese ideograms, from Egyptian hieroglyph to Aztecs glyphs, up to Phoenician alphabet and his “heirs”. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES new Giovanni Floris Storiedibimbisenzastoria illustrated by Lorenzo Terranera Lorenzo Terranera and Giovanni Floris offer us a strong and poignant vision of denied rights of childhood, in which the image plaints the real and the word recovers the violated right. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Le avventure di illustrated by Fabio Magnasciutti new Philippe Gratin is a thief of stolen masterpiece of art. When an artwork is stolen PG chases the guilty. Once found, he brings back the piece to the museum. His gang is composed by peculiar characters and the adventures,take place in different cities of the world. Other PG's adventures Philippe Gratin ha le ore contate FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Poland Philippe Gratin e il sultano innamorato FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Philippe Gratin e la Bocca della Verità FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Age: +10 Cover: full colours glossy Interior: around 130 pages b/w with illustrations Price: € 7,00 20 size 13,5x20,5 cm new edition Renzo Mosca Philippe Gratin alla Mille Miglia It starts in Brescia the thousand-mile, the most famous and chic historic car race.There is everybody, famous pilots, divas of entertainment and film stars, odd millionaires arrived from every part of the world.And there are Philippe Gratin and Priscilla, in incognito, to enjoy the spectacle. But a group of foolish steals the King Desiderio Cross, precious Longobard artwork, and decides to profit of Thousand-mile caravan to bring the cross in Rome and sell it on the black market.Will PG and his gang manage to avoid that misdeed and bring back the precious masterpiece? Moreover, will Priscilla manage to go shopping in Via Condotti? Between pursuits, clock trials, brawls and great binges the adventure will drive all Italy and it will finish, with great coup de théâtre, exactly where it started. FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Renzo Mosca Philippe Gratin cambia canale It has been stolen the Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”.The director of Rijksmuseum Otto Wafer is really in despair: he has only fifteen days to recover the masterpiece and the criminals threaten to deface the precious painting cutting… the nose of every character! The only chance he has is to devolve the case upon PG that sends his gang to search the precious painting along Amsterdam’s channels. In the same moment, the police inspector Olof Van Der Kanal and the dective Aloisius Beck are investigating on a sensational theft of diamonds.Will PG with his gang manage to recover the painting and the diamonds? Between thousands vicissitudes and laughing adventures another challenging mystery for the most funny thieve in yellow gloves of the world. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil, Poland Claudio Comini - Orazio Minneci Philippe Gratin e la ladra di cuori Fantomas is back! The whole European police is on his tracks.Then, one day, the most famous sightseeing in Brussels,an iron atom enlarged 150 millions times, crashes to the ground. Behind these crimes, the very cunning (and very attractive) thief DD is hidden.But when PG and DD will met… FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES Renzo Mosca Philippe Gratin e il Codice Leonardo In a sparkling Milan, during the fashion shows, Lord Palmerston and Monsieur Profiterol steal an important Leonardo’s code. PG is arrested for the theft, but, is this really the end of PG’s adventures? FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Claudio Comini - Orazio Minneci Philippe Gratin e il ritratto di Marilyn While PG’s gang is in New York, to support Scartezzini that will take part to the marathon, the famous portrait of Marilyn Monroe is stolen from the Metropolitan Museum. It will not be simple to recover the masterpiece,but PG will find the way, and also Priscilla will give a hand. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Brazil Claudio Comini - Orazio Minneci Philippe Gratin e la Maya Desnuda The director of the Prado is in despair: Goya’s “Maya Desnuda” disappeared. A breathtaking adventure with underground races, unscrupulous dealers and flamenco dancers. FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Poland 21 new series • new series Sì, io sono i misteri di Teo new series • new series illustrated by Alfredo Belli Protagonist of this series of mystery-story are two friends:Teodora (called Teo) and Nicola. Curiosity and accident puts them in the conditions of investigate in a “nonauthorized” way. Altafonte, where the adventures are settled,is a very important archaeological location. Unavoidable that the two teens find themselves in situations that involves finds, traffics, robbery etc… Forthcoming: Il mistero degli abissi Age: +10 • Cover: full colour glossy Interior: around 120 pages illustrated b/w Price: € 7,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 22 size 13,5x20,5 cm Adventures, tales, legends. Reality and fantasy crosses each other in the new series that have as main characters the great personality of the history in a very new appearance: artists, scientists, writers, poets… They are narrated with an unusual and curios look: the eyes of a child. new Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia Il carro infernale The discovery of an ancient Etruscan tomb with the fresco of a demon with fire’s hair gives birth to a new adventure for Teo and Nicola.The painting hides the terrible legend of the malediction of the hellish cart.And actually, something mysterious begins to happen: little animals – all black – disappear,Teo’s dog Zorro included… Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia L’idolo maledetto Teo and Nicola, escort Bruno to Rome.The man received a mysterious letter from his friend Federico but, when they arrive, the man is dead in an accident. He was working at the restoration of an Etruscan find: the statue of an idol, guardian of the underworld. Is maybe the statue’s spell still operating? Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia Il fantasma dell’etrusco Teo and Nicola take part to a summer camping at the archaeological site in their village.Teo is quite happy, since she likes Lorenzo, one of the participants. But one night, the ghost of the Etruscan appears among the camping tents! Is it actually a ghost? Or does his presence hide an even more exciting mystery? Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia L’enigma dei delfini di pietra Teo and Nicola want to give back an old lady a notebook she lost, but they cannot find her anywhere.The search ends up in “Etruria”, a recreation of Etruscan settings made up by the woman’s grandson. Nobody seems to have seen her, and nobody believes the children.Will they succeed in finding the mysterious woman’s trace? Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia Il Bosco Sacro Strange facts happen in Altafonte: mysterious animals seem to be back from a remote past, and the valley – set at the centre of an ancient Etruscan settling – is suddenly populated with disturbing creatures. But Teo, helped by her friend Nicola, will find out that… Janna Carioli - Luisa Mattia Il segreto del labirinto At the beginning of Summer that seems to be very boring Teo, Nicola and Zorro must face a mysterious Etruscan find, get lost in an impenetrable labyrinth, are made prisoners by a gang of cheats, but… FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD: Poland Forthcoming autumn 2006: Sì, io sono il Caravaggio by Luisa Mattia Sì, io sono Leonardo da Vinci by Janna Carioli Sì, io sono Michelangelo Buonarroti by Valeria Conti size 13,5x20,5 cm 23 gioca e inventa sempre storie nuove le cantastrocche new series • new series • new series • new series • new series Big sized leporello-books stiffened and pre-cutted with CD to approach the children to reading, using ironic and fun nursery rhymes settled to music to be listened, learned and singed by the whole family. tain s c d on Gurugù is a primitive creature. His world is hostile: there is always some imminent danger but there are also some good discovering. Gurugù must learn to be strong, to win upon fear, insecurity, and loneliness. C Age: +3 • Material: 8 pages full colour glossy cardboard + CD • Price: € 12,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 24 size 24x33 cm Nicola Brunialti La mucca fa bee illustrated by Carola Ghilardi Who said that things are as they look? Sometimes we just need to look the world with different eyes and add a little dream to transform reality. In this way everything is possible, also that the catfish starts to purr and that the cow do bee! Above all, it is possible that the ironic stories of different characters cross each other. Like the chicken in holiday that likes so much to stay in water that it becomes broth. Or like Michelino that is every time in late because his rooster is at the clockmaker. Or like the cat that sells his tail to pay the rental of his house, or like the professor shark that knows all the languages of the world but cannot talk because it is mute! new series • new series • new series • new series • new series Bazzi - Scalco L’albero della vita Age: +3 • Material: full colours mat thin cardboard with coil binding • Price: € 8,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES size 31x12 cm Andrea Angiolino Osvaldo e i cacciatori illustrated by Valeria De Caterini The storymixer contains 32 tiles, with two illustrations each. In the lower corners there are different colored symbols. The story begins from the tile with the yellow star on the left corner and goes on through the child’s choices, matching the different symbols present on the tiles, until the card without any symbol on the lower right corner.This is the end of the story, but just one of the possible ending: there are so many possibilities choosing different tiles! Age: +5 • Materials: 30 full colours and 2 b/w glossy cards • Packaging: coloured box Price: € 13,50 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES size 24x17x2 cm 25 book list • book list • book list • book list Touristic guides: 88-7874-018-7 Musichiamo new Marcella Oddi - Fulvia Rizonico Musichiamo illustrated by Lorenzo Terranera The play and the music together to offer to children the possibility to experience with body movements, the sense of rhythm, the auditory perception, the capacity of concentration ad listening. C on Age: +2 • Package: DVD box with full colour 28 pages book + CD • Price: € 12,00 FOREIGN RIGHTS AVAILABLES ALL COUNTRIES 26 size 12,9x18,3x1,4 cm c tain s d The child learns to recognize sounds in the same way he learns words of his mother tongue.Therefore, by means of hearing music expressly written for them, youngest children could easily develop sensibility about music and they will try the pleasure of hearing music. 88-87546-97-5 88-7874-025-X 88-87546-67-3 88-87546-25-8 88-87546-23-1 88-87546-62-2 88-87546-24-X 88-87546-65-7 88-87546-21-5 88-7621-921-8 88-87546-66-5 88-7621-126-8 88-87546-49-5 88-7621-047-4 88-7621-923-4 88-7621-922-6 88-87546-99-1 88-7621-048-2 88-87546-69-X 88-87546-61-4 I BAMBINI ALLA SCOPERTA DI… I bambini alla scoperta di Roma dal medioevo all’età contemporanea I bambini alla scoperta di Roma antica I bambini alla scoperta di Torino I bambini alla scoperta di Venezia I bambini alla scoperta di Firenze I bambini alla scoperta di San Marino I bambini alla scoperta di Bologna I bambini alla scoperta di Mantova I bambini alla scoperta di Verona I bambini alla scoperta di Milano I bambini alla scoperta del Lazio I bambini alla scoperta di Villa Borghese I bambini alla scoperta degli animali a Roma Ancient Rome for kids Bologna for kids Venice for kids Florence for kids Les enfants à la découverte de Rome Les enfants à la découverte de Bologne Les enfants à la découverte de Venise Los niños descubren Roma Antigua Artbooks: 88-7874-024-1 88-7874-012-8 88-7874-002-0 88-7874-006-3 88-87546-91-6 88-87546-90-8 88-87546-34-7 88-87546-56-8 88-87546-54-1 88-87546-43-6 88-7874-000-4 ARTE TRA LE MANI Amedeo Modigliani Edouard Manet Edvard Munch Filippo De Pisis Edgar Degas Vincent Van Gogh Vasilij Kandinskij Giorgio Morandi Paul Cézanne René Magritte Pablo Picasso € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € 15,00 13,00 13,00 13,00 12,40 10,33 12,50 12,50 13,00 10,33 10,33 13,00 10,33 13,00 11,36 13,00 11,36 13,00 11,36 13,00 13,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 6,00 5,16 4,13 6,00 88-87546-30-4 88-87546-20-7 88-87546-19-3 88-87546-89-4 88-87546-32-0 Toti Scialoja Il Futurismo Claude Monet Giorgio De Chirico Giuseppe Capogrossi € € € € € 4,13 6,00 4,13 6,00 4,13 Popularization: 88-7874-003-9 88-87546-86-X 88-87546-85-1 88-87546-40-1 AH, SAPERLO! INTRODUZIONE ALLA FISICA Il cielo sotto la terra Il filo conduttore Ali, mele e cannocchiali Numeri magici e stelle vaganti € € € € 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 88-7874-011-X AH, SAPERLO! LA BIOLOGIA Geni € 12,00 88-87546-87-8 AH, SAPERLO! LO SPORT Goal! € 13,00 Illustrated books: 88-7874-026-8 88-7874-005-5 88-87546-95-9 88-87546-96-7 I SENZA PAROLE Amici… per un pesce Che meraviglia! Ho trovato un pettirosso Solo tu mi vedi € € € € 11,00 10,00 10,00 10,00 88-7874-014-4 88-7874-020-9 88-87546-76-2 88-87546-75-4 I DUE PER DUE Storia incredibile di due principesse che sono arcistufe di essere oppresse La macchina di Celestino La mia famiglia Quando i cani non avevano la coda Tutto il respiro del mondo € € € € € 11,00 11,00 11,00 11,00 11,00 88-7874-021-7 88-7874-019-5 88-7874-028-4 88-7874-009-8 88-7874-015-2 88-7874-027-6 I LAPISLAZZULI La tempesta Fratellino Zuccavuota Nella casa del signor Tuono Ahi + giochi - male hai Bisognerà W le mamme buone? € € € € € € 12,00 12,00 12,00 15,00 12,00 12,00 887874-013-6 88-7874-008-X 88-87546-79-7 88-87546-78-9 88-87546-74-6 88-87546-77-0 88-87546-73-8 88-87546-72-X 88-87546-60-6 88-87546-50-9 88-87546-71-1 88-87546-57-6 88-87546-51-7 88-87546-53-3 88-87546-59-2 88-87546-52-5 88-87546-41-X 88-87546-42-8 Quattro zampe una testa una corazza Buonanotte buio Un regalo per Goumba Un elefante non è una caramella Il giardino Io credo che la Befana Pace e toccoterra Tramonto Il vecchio e il bambino La principessa ranocchia Tre chicchi di moca Il paese dei colori La pecora volante Pareva un gioco Parole di latte Incanti Il dono della farfalla € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € € 15,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 15,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 12,00 11,40 11,40 11,40 Special: 88-7874-017-9 88-7874-001-2 Di segni e di scritture Storiedibimbisenzastoria € 12,00 € 11,00 Humoristic thrillers: 88-7874-022-5 88-7874-029-2 88-87546-94-0 88-87546-84-3 88-87546-64-9 88-87546-44-4 88-87546-63-0 88-87546-58-4 88-87546-55-X LE AVVENTURE DI PHILIPPE GRATIN Philippe Gratin alla Mille Miglia Philippe Gratin cambia canale Philippe Gratin e la ladra di cuori Philippe Gratin e il Codice Leonardo Philippe Gratin e il ritratto di Marilyn Philippe Gratin e la Maya Desnuda Philippe Gratin e il sultano innamorato Philippe Gratin ha le ore contate Philippe Gratin e la Bocca della Verità € € € € € € € € € 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 88-7874-016-0 88-87546-88-6 88-87546-83-5 88-87546-82-7 I MISTERI DI TEO Il carro infernale L’idolo maledetto Il fantasma dell’etrusco L’enigma dei delfini di pietra € € € € 7,00 7,00 7,00 7,00 88-87546-81-9 88-87546-80-0 Il Bosco Sacro Il segreto del labirinto € 7,00 € 7,00 Nursery rhymes: 88-7874-023-3 LE CANTASTROCCHE La mucca fa bee € 12,00 Games: 88-7874-007-1 IL MISCHIASTORIE Osvaldo e i cacciatori € 13,50 88-87546-92-4 GURUGÙ L’albero della vita € 8,00 Music: 88-7874-030-6 MUSICHIAMO Musichiamo € 12,00 Pocket edition: 88-87546-01-0 88-87546-02-9 88-87546-03-7 88-87546-07-X 88-87546-08-8 88-87546-09-6 88-87546-10-X 88-87546-11-8 88-87546-12-6 88-87546-13-4 88-87546-14-2 88-87546-15-0 88-87546-16-9 88-87546-35-5 CARLO IL TARLO Pecore Amore e matematica Analisi Dizionario di zio Mario dalla A alla C Bradipi Philippe Gratin e il Piano Calamita Dietro le quinte Angeli Amori in salamoia Dizionario di zio Mario dalla D alla G Philippe Gratin e lo squalo delle fogne Mestieri Coccodrilli Fuga nel Terzo Millennio € € € € € € € € € € € € € € Theatrical tales: 88-87546-27-4 88-87546-26-6 FAVOLE A TEATRO I Cavalieri della favola gioconda Il Pifferaio di Hamelin € 10,33 € 10,33 Writing manuals: 88-87546-04-5 88-87546-17-7 PAROLIMMAGINI Kobolduno I diari del signor Rossi € 8,26 € 8,26 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 4,13 FOREIGN RIGHTS: Servizi editoriali Via Ampère, 97 - 20131 Milano - Italy tel. +39.02.28510504 - fax +39.02.87393515 e-mail: info@serv-ed.it www.serv-ed.it Cover illustration: Lorenzo Terranera Graphic design and layout: Manuela Cordella w w w . e d i z i o n i l a p i s . i t Edizioni Lapis • via Francesco Ferrara, 50 - 00191 Roma - Italy tel. +39.06.3295935 fax +39.06.36307062 e-mail: estero.lapis@edizionilapis.it