★Some of the works in this series have been sold in France, Sweden, Korea, the United States, Spain, Germany, Brazil, China, Romania,etc.
★The author of this book is Giovanna Zoboli, who is very popular with children in Italy and has written many children's books, and won the White Ravens Award, the Italian Andersen Prize, the “Top 100 Outstanding Picture Books of dPICTUS” and many other awards. Her works have been licensed for publication in many countries!
★Giovanna Zoboli works with a number of outstanding illustrators for her children's books, including:
• Simone Murazzani, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the best illustrator in Italy and winner of the Silver Award for “Original Art” from the Society of Illustrators of New York City.
• Mariachiara Di Giorgio, winner of the 2022 Italian Andersen Prize for Best Illustrator.
• Philip Giordano, who was the illustrator of the Bologna 2020 Illustration Exhibition, known as the “Western Hayao Miyazaki”.
• Simone Rea, winner of the Bologna Illustration Prize and the Bratislava Biennial Illustration Prize.
★Some of the works are available with English sample.

This theme includes 34 titles:
【Illustrator】Philip Giordano
Natural Cognition series (5 titles)

【Illustrator】Simona Mulazzani
A good elephant
Felice, the cat
I wish I had (New Edition)
The big book of slumber
Animal Supermarket
Anselmo goes to school
Windy rhymes for out of breath children (New Edition)
In a mice family

【Illustrator】Mariachiara Di Giorgio
Lepron's soup
Professional crocodile

【Illustrator】Lisa D’Andrea
The Christmas of the missing mouse
The holidays of the missing mous
The Missing Mouse

【Illustrator】Melissa Castrillon
A perfect silence

【Illustrator】Simone Rea
The Balloon Superman

【Illustrator】 Maja Celija
Soapy rhymes(New Edition)

【Illustrator】Valerio Vidali
Miss Timothy's trip

【Illustrator】Guido Scarabottolo
Things I can't see from my window
Two monkeys in the kitchen
At Night, on the Way Home

【Illustrator】Joanna Concejo
The angel of shoes

【Illustrator】Francesca Bazzurro
The Secret Zoo
Wherever you are, my dearest crocodile

【Illustrator】Anna Emilia Laitinen
House of fable

【Illustrator】Camilla Engman
Too late
Once upon a time there was a story

【Illustrator】Massimo Caccia
Oh!
The lizard and the stone
The best breakfast in the world

★Rights sold in Russian, Spanish Catalan, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, English, Greek, Czech, Portuguese (Brazil).
★ Shortlisted for the 2023 Orbil Award Picture Book category!
★Bestselling partners Giovanna Zoboli and Mariachiara Di Giorgio are back with a story that will thrill adults, children, and the entire animal kingdom!
★No one knows why Mr Lepron's soup is so good.
★English translation available.

Mr Lepron is a beautiful hare, with a shiny fur and long ears. He has a nice, cosy lair, many children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and a passion for vegetables. Indeed, Mr. Lepron is the best soup cook in the world. All animals in the forest wander how his soup tastes so good and what his secret is. So one day, Mr Lepron opens a factory, where huge pots of his soup cook night and day before being canned and shipped all over the world. But his success is soon to be threatened... After Professional crocodile, translated into ten languages, Giovanna Zoboli and Mariachiara Di Giorgio are back with a story that will amaze adults, children and the whole animal kingdom.

Giovanna Zoboli (Author)
She is an author and editor. In 2004, together with Paolo Canton, she founded the Topipittori publishing house, where she works as an editor and artistic director for the illustration of children's books and audiovisual works. More than thirty books have been published in Italy and abroad, and she has been awarded the “White Ravens Award”, the Andersen Prize in Italy, the “100 Most Outstanding Picture Books” and many other prizes. She focuses on improving the cultural literacy of children and young people in cultural learning activities through blogs, books, magazines, conferences, lectures, courses and other forms. She currently lives and works in Milan, Italy.


Mariachiara Di Giorgio (Illustrator)
She was born in Rome in 1983. She studied illustration in Rome, at IED, and in Paris, at ENSAD. During college, she started collaborating as a cartoonist for FAO as well as a storyboard artist and concept designer for movies and ad agencies. Between 2010 and 2001, she worked as background artist for the making of The dark side of the sun, a film by Carlo Hintermann and Lorenzo Ceccotti. She joined the publishing field in 2012, illustrating some of Rodari’s books for Editori Internazionali Riuniti, followed by Editori Laterza, DeAgostini, Else Edizioni, Mondadori, Linus magazine and shops from La Città del Sole. Her work has been exhibited at Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition (2015 and 2016) and at the 58th edition of The New York Society of Illustrator’s Exhibition. She won the 2022 Italian Andersen Prize for Best Illustrator.