Bologna' Children Bookfair 2013

My visit to the Children's Book Fair lasted two days . I wanted to get the best of it and I made  a few hundred photos! 

I made my best to see  most of the stands and keep memory of the beautiful books I saw.

A page from another book by the same author

Other books I liked

I really loved this book where the author  explained plays on words with the help of animals

 So nice this book  by Bruno Heitz

 I found my favourite authors signing books. Here is Fabian Negrin at Orecchio Acerbo

 And here is Lorenzo Mattotti: I bought one of his books and  you can see him signing it! (things only artists love....)

The illustrators' exhibition had a nice arrangement, and

 soldiers almost attacked my trolley!!!

The BOP Prize (best juvenile literature publishers  ) this year went among others to the indian Tara Books. 

 My favourite were this  book  entitled "Waterlife"

and this wonderful  "Drawing from the City", by artist Teju Behan,

 

I could not leave without visiting the beautiful exhibition  "OLTREMAI"  by Lorenzo Mattotti , at the Pinacoteca , which was opening on that monday.
Powerful and mighty 70 x 100 cm. works on paper all black and white . You can also visit the exhibition on You Tube (it is not the same feeling, but you still have idea of the power of this great author.

A Night Flight

To create this night flight I took a  blue-coloured paper and drew with my soft pastels. I first closed my eyes and imagined to be a moth that  flew down over the flowers in the moonlight...

(illustration taken from my "Libro della Cosa Importante", ed. CEI 2012)

Oreste reading Turandot

The Opera Turandot, unaccomplished by Giacomo Puccini , was finished by Franco Alfano. 

It tells the story of  the Princess Turandot, who was very cruel with her pretenders...

Christmas Tree Decorations

May my little Oreste fly lightly to you all to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,  and gently blow the  fulfilment of all your dreams...

Things exist...Il existe des choses

If we believe in some thing, if it is in respect of Universal Laws, we have to strongly support and believe  it, giving it the possibility of existing...

Si nous croyons en quelque chose, pourvu que cela soit dans le respect des Lois Universaux, il est préférable de la supporter et d'y croire, lui donnant la possibilité d'exister ...
(taken from my book "Il Libro DELLA COSA IMPORTANTE", ed. CEI, 2012)

Strange Waking up

THIS ILLUSTRATION PARTICIPATED TO BOLOGNA'S CHILDREN BOOKFAIR, 2012 and was then published as cover  of New Magazine Imperia

THE BOOK OF THE IMPORTANT THING, written and illustrated by Cristina Berardi

" If what we believe is  in respect of Universal Laws,  it is preferable to support it, giving it a possibility to exist"...

Here it is...after two years  of work...my book was  presented at the Fiera del Libro di Imperia.
I have not been able  to either write or draw in the last month...maybe be as a side effect for  overworking in the previous months. Everything came together! The Book, an exhibition in Bordighera,  the cover illustration I usually have to do for the New Magazine Imperia (one every two months)...and, last but not least, my family has a cute she-dog (such a lot of  extra work)!!!!!

But now I have rested enough ...I feel I can go back to work again! I have started a translation of my "Important Book" (in English and in French). ... I have worked for so many years as a translator for others , now I shall do it  for myself!!  I know it is not the same...but the important thing is to start...(as I say in the introduction to my book).