Power-up. The Gamers’ Challenge
Giuseppe D'Anna
Stop!
Adventure
Graphic Novel
Romance
A group of friends,
a video game,
a year lived out together.
Nineties, Italy. Cloud and Buck are mad about video games and one day they decide to put together a team of teenagers to create a video game of their own: Stop! Between friendship, first loves, game nights, a secret refuge and arguments, will the teenagers be able to realise their dream of seeing Stop! finally produced?
- Based on a true story.
- The challenge of creating a video game all by yourself.
- A challenge faced together, in the name of a common passion, between quarrels and reconciliations.
- And, last but not least… a love story!
Publisher:
Il Castoro
Target:
10+
Year:
2023
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.
Author
Andrea Tullio Canobbio
Andrea Tullio Canobbio is a researcher and Italian language teacher. He currently works at the University of Pavia. Since 2013, he has been combining his research and teaching activity with working as a children’s author, collaborating with the Book on a Tree circle of authors. His latest books include La nascita del computer (EL) and Il merlo canta libero (Solferino), co-written with Alessandro Gatti.
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