The Son of the Sea

Adventure
Historical

For many years, nothing important happened in the House. Then, the barbarians arrived.

A fourteen-year-old pig keeper finds himself enlisted in the legionaries of Rome to face the most terrible enemy of all time: Attila’s barbarians. Pietro will make a friend, Tito, and meet a great love, Giustina. He will have to disguise himself, be taken hostage, fight and even be fatally wounded by an enemy spatha. And in the end, he will contribute to founding a city destined to shine through the centuries and become famous throughout the world. The queen of the lagoon. Venice.

  • A story of adventure that describes an unknown time and a place.
  • Each chapter opens with an extraordinary tapestry illustrated in late Romanesque style that narrates a piece of history almost in “comic-book style”, creating a unique link between text and images.
Publisher: Mondadori
Target: 10+
Year: 2022
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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