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...