Roberto Piumini
Ciro and the clouds
illustrations by Cecco Mariniello
48 pages (four colours), 8 euros, Isbn 978-88-8212-446-5

This is the story of a child named Ciro and of one of those merry-go-rounds which make people fly on the seats. Ciro would like to grasp the red puppet which hangs from the pole near the merry-go-round, but he is too little and he can’t do it. During a very dry and hot summer, one day he finds a red tail coming out of the clouds: may be if he can grasp it the clouds could let the rain come down... Ciro flies on the seat of the merry-go-round and something extraordinary happens. Book for children aged 6 and over.

Roberto Piumini has written many novels, tales, poems and translations for adults and poems, tales, novels, plays and translations for children. He is one of the best Italian children’s writers and is very well known even abroad. For Interlinea he wrote Peppino’s journey and Caterina the goat.
 

Cecco Mariniello was born in Siena in 1950 and is one of the most famous illustrators in Italy (among others he has illustrated many books by Roberto Piumini). He has been awarded the Andersen prize and published with Piemme (Jacopo and the abominable wild beast), Fatatrac, Giunti and others. For Interlinea he wrote How Caterina saved Santa Claus, which was awarded the Christmas Tale prize in 2001, and illustrated Peppino’s journey and Ciro and the clouds by Roberto Piumini, Little mad tales by Anna Vivarelli and Who set the library on fire? by Anna Lavatelli.