Geppe the Brigand
Stefano Garzaro
Maydala Express
Adventure
Finally, ten years old with red hair, she lives in the vast train station of the Gray City and works for the company that controls trains all over the world, under the orders of the evil Mr. Mortimer. Every day she dreams of escaping, and so, when she finds a crumpled piece of paper with the words “Ticket to the farthest place there is,” she has no doubts. In an instant, she is already aboard the Maydala Express, an ancient wooden train that will take her to the ends of the earth. With her new friend Lem, the most famous young thief from the White City, she will cross the mysterious Steam Metropolis, constantly shrouded in fog, the City of Lights, where the inhabitants travel in old-fashioned carriages… and many other places, on an adventurous and reckless journey that will lead the two children to their final, unknown destination. Cover by Elisabetta Stoinich and Pemberleypond.
Publisher:
Piemme
Target:
8-10
Year:
2011
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.
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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