★Rights sold in Korean and simplified Chinese!
★Trying to put ourselves into someone else's shoes.
★Realising that "full" and "empty" are connetcted.
★Thinking together with children.
★English sample available

One day Mr. Full and Mr. Empty meet. Curious and suspicious, they exchange a few words and stay in silence. Both would like to be seen as they want to appear: one full, one empty. When they try to switch roles, something truly miraculous happens. A deep and wise philosophical story, told through the highest synthesis of signs and words.

Cristina Bellemo was born in 1970 in Bassano del Grappa, where she currently lives. After studying humanities at secondary school, she graduated in Ancient Greek at Padua University. She’s been working as a journalist for several magazines and she’s director of L’AbBeCedario, a magazine issued by the A.B.C. Association (Associazione Bambini Chirurgici) of Burlo Garofolo children’s hospital in Trieste. She’s written a number of books (Edizioni Messaggero Padova, Erickson Edizioni, Zoolibri, Topipittori, Rizzoli) and curated art catalogues for Bozzetto Edizioni. Besides, she’s been awarded literary prizes such as Trofeo Baia delle favole within Premio Andersen for La leggerezza perduta. She’s married to Massimiliano and has a daughter, Cecilia, and a son, Sebastiano. Since many years, she regularly meets children and adults with whom she shares the passion and the magic of storytelling. She collaborates with the eccentric theatre company I Poffargnacchi and she often leaves for unexpected journeys: her baggage is a cart full of books.

Liuna Virardi was born in Bologna in 1983. She studied graphic design and visual communication at ISIA, Urbino, and illustration at Escola Massana, Barcelona. Today she works as an author and illustrator in Toulouse, France. She works in different areas of publishing, but making picture books is her favorite thing. She was shortlisted at Bologna Children's Book Fair exhibition, 2019 and 2014; at Prix Sorcières, 2018; at Nambook Festival 2017. She was awarded the White Ravens, 2016, and the Gourmand Word Cookbook, 2014. Her work has been exhibited in Tokyo, Taipei, New York, Barcelona, ​​Lisbon, Milan.