This is my dad. He's as big as an elephant! He's a bit bald, but he's very handsome and nice... My dad makes the bed, takes me to school, cooks, does the washing, plays hide-and-seek and even sings opera... I love my dad!

Ariadna is the main character of this book, a girl who loves animals. In first person and in rhyme, her father tells us what his little girl likes about animals.

'My Family is Special' introduces us to diverse types of family. Stunning illustrations draw us into a story starring a lot of animals and a one-hundred-year-old granny who invites her family to her birthday party.

This story is about a little girl in a wheelchair and a cat who was rescued from the street. Each has their own reasons to be scared to leave the house.

Between the pages of this book you will find the story of Miko, an adaptation of a Japanese legend that explains the origins of the Maneki-neko, the friendly lucky cat so beloved of the Japanese.

France (Bayard), Italy (Franco Cosimo Panini), simplified Chinese (Beijing United Publishing)

The brain is considered to be the most complex machine in existence. It's the control centre for all our activities. But is it really a perfect machine?

"Women who read" could just as well have been entitled women who sang, women who painted, women who played piano or women who danced.