The Admiral Has Nicked the Sky
Marianna Balducci
The Knights of Good Manners
Picture book
With good manners, you get everything.
In a town far, far away, there lived a group of people whose children were very ill-mannered. They didn’t wash, never cleared the table, and ate only sweets, just to give you an idea. Desperate times call for desperate measures, their parents told themselves. So, they decided to call the Knights of Good Manners to re-educate their children in the most effective way possible. However, they hadn’t considered the possibility of also having to be brought back in line themselves.
- A witty and ironic picture book that makes us smile and reminds us that perhaps, all in all, none of us are perfect.
- With this project, Emanuele Benetti won the 2020/2021 Edition of the Lucca Junior Contest – “Livio Sossi” Editorial Illustration Award.
Publisher:
Kite
Target:
5-7
Year:
2021
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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