Luca is terrified of sleeping in his own bed. His parents may be in the next room, the ladybird lamp may be on, but the monsters are not put off and come anyway. One after the other. And when they're all together they make such a din that it is almost impossible to fall asleep. Luca has a solution, which works to perfection.   

In far distant Judea, the divine and human are intertwined: an angel arrives to announce an unexpected pregnancy, to watch over mary's childhooh, to choose her humble husband, to announce her the miraculous and mysterious birth of a son whose name is, still today, invoked in all the languages of the world.  

Sun lives in Nigeria, in her mummy's tummy. But the beauty of that hot land and the love its inhabitants have for life are not enough against the horror stories of famine and war. So Sun leaves to be born elsewhere, among the smiles and the sweet perfume of hope.  

In Leonardo’s life there was room for every art form, all kinds of research, discoveries and inventions. There was also room for Giacomo, a young boy who, in this book, accompanies Leonardo through the main events which marked his life.       

"Who's that madman, dressed like a scarecrow, who spends his days in the fields painting?" some people would ask. That painter was Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent had indeed one true teacher: Nature that taught him about light, shadows, shapes and colours. And had one single appraiser: his brother Theo. But today that 'madman' is one of the most famous painters in the world.