The Pikes of Lake Road
Giuseppe Festa
The Law of the Jungle
Adventure
The true story of Bagheera.
Panthers are made of shadows. Bagheera’s roar is lost in the fairy tale, the footprint of his paw disappears among the leaves, and silence becomes absolute among the trees, the wind and the great river.
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Before Mowgli arrived in the Jungle, another cub lived an extraordinary adventure.
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The origin story of Mowgli’s Bagheera, from long before The Jungle Book was even a figment of Rudyard Kipling’s imagination! As for the jungle, it has always been there.
Publisher:
Piemme
Target:
10+
Year:
2016
Author
Davide Morosinotto
An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.
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