Dad, Del Piero and Other Superheroes

Winning is not important: it’s the only thing that matters.

Pierdomenico’s specialty has always been telling stories. And stories can change people’s minds, even about the most important things. That’s why, when he starts to suspect that his daughters – one a teenager and justifiably oppositional, the other an exuberant five-year-old – might lose interest in soccer, or worse, choose the wrong team, he decides to tell them the story of the team of the heart, a team you don’t choose: whether it’s strong or not, it doesn’t matter, it’s love, simply… And the Juventus team told here is not just the team that always wins, but the one whose superheroes, like Trezeguet, Nedved, Del Piero, and Buffon, never abandoned it even in difficult times. Because the story of great teams is made of ups and downs, glories and tragedies, but you don’t choose who you fall in love with.

  • A reading for both adults and children, to read together and cheer together… because the soccer team, as we know, is the only thing you remain faithful to for your entire life.
  • The heroes of the great Juventus under Trapattoni, Lippi, Conte, and Allegri become characters in equally captivating stories that will win over even the most difficult readers.
  • The sports glories a Juventus-supporting father MUST tell his children if he wants them to grow up healthy, strong, and most of all, Juventus fans!
Publisher: Piemme
Target: 8-10
Year: 2020
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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