BOOK THE LAST BLACK CAT
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The Last Black Cat: a novel by the "poet of fairy tales" Evgenios Trivizas, which wins from the first page and holds the reader's interest, an exciting adventure that combines lyricism with humor, emotion with mystery, despair with hope, a sharp "accusation" against racism, xenophobia and superstition.
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BOOK GRAPHIC NOVEL – THE GREAT WALK OF PETER
October 27, 1940: Petros will remember this day because his cricket died. He will remember her because the next day he hears his mother's voice saying: “Get up... there has been a war. Can't you hear the sirens?'
When the Italians arrived at Greece's doorstep, Petros was nine years old, had a pet turtle and knew war only through books. But now he experiences it every day, together with his parents, his grandfather and his older sister, Antigone, starting a long walk - a walk in the Athens of the Occupation, in those difficult years of hunger, starvation, fear, of the persecutions, but also of the Resistance to the conquerors.
The emblematic novel by Alki Zei, recreated as a graphic novel by the author Angeliki Darlasi and the comedian Dimitris Mastoros, respecting the atmosphere and spirit of the original. A graphic novel-tribute from the creators of younger generations to a favorite classic book of Greek literature.
BOOK THE ISLAND OF MARIA
A unique and fascinating story about love and separation.
My name is Maria Petraki. And this is the story of my life.
Inspired by the worldwide bestseller The Island and adapted for children, Maria's touching story of how her life became connected to Spinalonga, a small island near Crete, is a hymn to friendship and family, hope and love. Above all, however, it is a story as relevant as ever.
BOOK THE KAPLANI TIS VITRINA
EY-PO? LY-PO? is the password question that Melia and Myrto exchange between each other just before falling asleep.
Two little sisters who live on an island in the Aegean in 1936 listen to their grandfather talk to them for endless hours about his "ancients", they can't wait to retaliate with their friends from the tsardakias as summer comes, but above all they go crazy with the magical stories of the goatherd told to them by their cousin Nikos, a student from Athens.
The kaplani -as they call it on the island-, an embalmed tiger, which is locked in the window of the great hall of the house, sometimes looks with its blue and sometimes with its black eye, depending on its mood.
What happens on a hot August day that upsets the lives of the girls and theirs? Who wants to hurt the goat?
The kaplani -as they call it on the island-, an embalmed tiger, which is locked in the window of the great hall of the house, sometimes looks with its blue and sometimes with its black eye, depending on its mood.
What happens on a hot August day that upsets the lives of the girls and theirs? Who wants to hurt the goat?
BOOK THE PURPLE UMBRELLA
Shortly before the war of 1940, somewhere in Marousi, lives with her parents Eleftheria, a ten-year-old girl, whom her twin younger brothers call Letro and when they get angry with her Laveran's Plasmodium. She detests the household and "women's" jobs, while she goes crazy for everything her father disapproves of: She reads books voraciously, looks forward to seeing the theater, sneaks glances at the newspaper, wishes one day to look like Sophocles' Antigone.
On the upper floor of their house, Mr. Marcel, a Frenchman who lives permanently in Greece, has Benoit's nephew under his protection, who becomes the children's inseparable friend. Few of their toys: balls, spins, rope, yo-yoki, a pair of roller skates. Their imaginations are boundless: together they create a thousand and two stories that enchant them too. And how much more would they think of doing if the adults didn't stop them...
BOOK THE ROOM THAT TRAVELS
Little Danae wanders around her big house, depressed and hurt. Until one day he discovers the wooden staircase leading to the basement. There live two unknown, strange old people, Rodolinos and Tzijiflora. Wise, good, dreamers and escapees from the boring world of adults, they will receive her with love, take care of her and take her to an incredible, wonderful other land; a place alive with old fairy tales and myths.
The basement is therefore transformed into a "time machine" that takes them to the green mountains of Heidi, to the palace of Knossos, to the ship of Theseus as it crosses the sea, which will be called the Aegean, to the long song of Aretousa and Erotokritos.
Life now for Danae and her little brother Manos, who takes him by the hand with her, becomes a magical, happy adventure, well hidden inside their own house.
After all, only those who believe in miracles may one day experience them.
