Anna Lavatelli
The mistery of the missing smile
illustrations by Antongionata Ferrari
112 pages, 7,75 euros, Isbn 978-88-8212-283-6

While investigating the theft of a high C from the chest at the Scala theatre and looking for someone who stole all Milan’s colours, inspector Busillis has the time to go to the Louvre museum in Paris, where someone stole the Gioconda’s smile. Thanks to his police dog, to his wife Renata and to tv-detective stories, Busillis, believing in the unbelievable, always finds the solution. A very funny book for children aged 9 and over.

Anna Lavatelli was born in Novara in 1953. She obtained a degree in Philosophy and is now a teacher. She started to write children’s books in 1986, always with great success (for Piemme: Paola is not mad; for Interlinea: Who set the library on fire?, Tales of the Magi and Frog nursery-rhymes. Frog tales with Emanuele Luzzati). She has been awarded many prizes, among which the Lazzarillo prize and the Andersen-Baia delle favole prize.
 

Antongionata Ferrara has published for many important publishing houses and for Interlinea he illustrated Santa Claus has come back, by Sebastiano Ruiz Mignone.