Carlo Negro
Ahmed and other tales
illustrations by Antonio Ferrara
48 pages (four colours), 5 euros, Isbn 978-88-8212-382-6

Ahmed is an orphan who lives in the desert and leads the Magi to the hut in Bethlehem; Guidone is an evil duke who lets his heart be moved; Gretchen is an old woman who knits a warm sweater for the Child. Three intense Christmas tales for children aged 8 and over.

Carlo Negro was a teacher and an appreciated writer of books for school. He lived in a concentration camp in Germany and from that experience he draw some tales, both for adults and for children.
 

Antonio Ferrara was born in Portici (Naples) in 1957 and obtained a diploma at the Istituto d’Arte Salazar in Naples. His works have been chosen more than once for the illustrators exhibition at the Children’s Book Fair in Bologna. He has exhibited all over Italy and has held a personal exhibition dedicated to Pinocchio. For Interlinea he has illustrated, among others, Andersen and Piumini.