FORTHCOMING IN SPRING 2024
Hardcover, black & white
14 x 21,5 cm
128 pages
cover artwork by awarded illustrator Carson Ellis
ALL LANGUAGES AVAILABLE EX. WORLD ENGLISH
Mac Barnett will be in Bologna co-hosted by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and Terre di mezzo Editore. You will find us at stand A36, hall 26: contact me to schedule a meeting, and don’t miss Mac Barnett’s events!
● April 9th, 3 pm, Illustrators’ Cafè
“Mac Barnett, are you ever going to write a real book? Why children’s books are a very serious thing”, a discussion with Maria Russo, an expert on children’s publishing.
● April 10th, 7:30 pm, Bookshop Giannino Stoppani via Rizzoli 1-2, Bologna
Happy hour and book signing with the author.
MAC BARNETT’s first book for adults: an exciting essay about the role of children’s literature – an original work written for Terre di mezzo.
Every great author and every great reader should know this. But what is a children’s book? In this special essay, Mac Barnett seriously and humorously tells and defends the potential of children’s literature, breaking down one of the greatest literary taboos in history. “If you don’t think children’s books are real books, on some level, you don’t think children are real people”, and that they cannot access real art. And
yet, it’s the perfect opposite: “An average child is a much better reader of literary fiction, much better than the average adult.”
After twenty years as a writer and more than fifty books published, in his first book for “grown-ups” THE SECRET DOOR (La porta segreta), Mac Barnett tells why children’s literature is literature in its own right and how deeply the connection between children’s authors and their readers works.
★ An internationally renowned author translated worldwide
★ An indispensable manifesto for parents, teachers, librarians, authors, booksellers, and those who would like to discover children’s literature
★ An enthusiastic literary journey
MAC BARNETT is a New York Times bestselling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.
Mac’s books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Awards, three E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Germany’s Jugendliteraturpreis, China’s Chen Bochui International Children’s Literature Award, The Netherlands’ Silver Griffel, and Italy’s Premio Orbil.
Among his bestselling titles: The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza, Extra Yarn, The Terrible Two, How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney.
