★Simplified Chinese rights is sold!
★2017 Italian Andersen Award Best dissemination project.
★Mention Bologna Ragazzi Award - non fiction title.
★ Small Portable Art Gallery Seriesis a series of children's art cultivation books jointly launched by Painter's Star Press and Florence Municipal Museum. Art galleries are places where all kinds of paintings are kept. This series of books are selected from famous works of art, aiming to make each book into a collection of themed art gallery works, small and portable, so that children can immerse themselves in a good art atmosphere anytime and anywhere.
★ Not only can you see masterpieces of art, but this series of books also provides every child with the opportunity to doodle, color, cut, collage and other hands-on activities. The finished works can be used to decorate the room, so that the home can become a museum of unique, children's own works.
★The series invites the best illustrators of the Italian and international scene to tackle the great themes of the history of painting: portraits, animals, still life, etc. By reproducing the masterpieces of the present and the past in the form of drawings and sketches, the authors offer children an original exercise in drawing and attention.

The series includes 20 titles: Colors, Black, Green, Blue, Yellow, White, Red, Human beings, Outside, "Playing. The art of entertainment", Typography, Wonderful fables by Antonio Canova, Eating at the table of the art masters, Mosaics, Depero and the house of the wizard, "Giotto. A sketchbook", Still-life painting, Ladies and knights, "Paintings, pictures, animals", Landscapes

Wonderful gardens, palaces, castles, parks full of trees, shadows, fountains, little lakes: En plein air is a journey through the most enchanting historical gardens of Trentino, northern Italy. With text by Giulia Mirandola, a fine picture books specialist, and images by Andrea Serio, here at his debut.

Giulia Mirandola has a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage. She worked with Ubulibri, Zanichelli, Hamelin Associazione Culturale. She curated Catalogone Topipittori since its first issue. In 2012 she published her contributions in Ad occhi aperti. L'albo illustrato (Donzelli) focusing on world-less and coloring books. Her research into picture books is mainly directed to word-less books and books for very little children. She is involved in formation programs for reading picture books, both for children and adults. She collaborates with libraries, schools, associations, bookshops, publishers, festivals, foundations, museums, universities, cultural institutions, in Italy and abroad. In 2006 she founded the cultural project Il Masetto.

Andrea Serio was born in Carrara in 1973. He studied illustration at IED in Turin. He creates comics and illustrations for music, magazines and advertising. In 2012 his graphic novel Nausicaa, L'altra Odissea (texts by Bepi Vigna) was published in Italy and France, which inspired an animation movie presented at Venice's Festival del Cinema. His works were exhibited at Fiera del libro di Torino, Festival internazionale Babel di Atene, TorinoComics, Festival di musica e avanguardie artistiche Lugocontemporanea. With writer Michele Montanari he keeps Nerobalena blog. Since 2013 he teaches at Scuola Internazionale di Comics.