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Smartphones are important to stay connected with family and friends and sometimes are themselves a tool to create and maintain long-distance friendships…
But frequently young people don’t know how to use their mobile phones or digital devices in a conscious way.
And here we can help them to learn!
We want to introduce 4 titles that in different ways talk about our technology addiction and proposes a conscious approach to the digital life of children.
OUR HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2020 Rights Catalogue!
Scilla has a mobile phone-struggle: her friends are putting her aside, her family is not listening to her and F (she’s sure, he would understand…) soon will move to a new town! All of her schoolmates have it, almost everyone has got a smartphone, why she still doesn’t have one? Luckily she can count on granny Katrina, and luckily sometimes a prodigious tram goes by, bringing her to unexpected places. Here, in the digital city, where she’ll find strange characters, new friends and most of all… lots of answers!
A training journey that does not prescribe but proposes a conscious approach to the digital life of children and tries to answer the fateful question: “Come on, when will I get a smartphone, too?”
Target: Fiction, 9+
Format: 14,5 x 18,5 cm
Binding: Soft cover with flaps
Pages: 52
Texts: Francesco Fagnani
Illustrations: Agnese Innocente
Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified)
For Carlo, despite his mom’s recommendations, it would never be time to turn off televisione: cartoons, games, quizzes… But one day the TV set get crazy and decides it will never switch off…
Target: Fiction, 6+
Format: 13 x 21 cm
Pages: 32
Texts: Silvia Roncaglia
Illustrations: Antongionata Ferrari
Two friends: an elephant and a fly. Separated by a road but united by a network, the Internet.
What happens if they should decide to meet up one day? A sensitive entertaining story about different ways of being friends online but keeping the strong desire to meet personally.
A book dedicated to new young digital natives.
Target: Non Fiction, 5+
Format: 14,5 x 18,5
Pages: 64
Binding: Soft cover with flaps
Texts & Illutrations: Roberto Luciani
Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified)
«It was all my fault. Really, I didn’t do it on purpose, daddy’s phone just slipped from my hands. These are things that happen». And so that evening Luca and his family found themselves in a silent dinner, a quiet atmosphere never experienced before. Daddy was so angry that he turned off TV, too. But then, all of a sudden, dad himself wants to break that awkward silence by saying something, and the evening changes it all…
A delicate but deep story that talks about our “technology addiction”.
Target: Fiction, 7+
Format: 13 x 21 cm
Pages: 36
Texts & Illustrations: Antonio Ferrara