The Store of the Lost Maps

Adventure
Mystery

– What place is this?
– It’s a wonderful place.
– It’s where it all began.

Who is Ulysses Moore really? Is he truly dead, as everyone believes, or is he hiding behind the faces of unsuspecting acquaintances? For Jason, Julia, and Rick, the truth seems to be within reach and yet light-years away at the same time. And it flees far away, along the tracks of the abandoned Kilmore Cove station, now that the Train of Eternal Youth has been set in motion once again…

Illustrations from the historic editions and logo: Iacopo Bruno
20th-anniversary illustrations: Alida Pintus

Publisher: Battello a Vapore
Target: 10+
Year: 2025
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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