30 January 2026
An Album for Thinking and Not Thinking
For the first time, the poet Mariangela Gualtieri dedicates a work to children and to the creative freedom of their age, so rich in potential and so open ...
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An Album for Thinking and Not Thinking
For the first time, the poet Mariangela Gualtieri dedicates a work to children and to the creative freedom of their age, so rich in potential and so open to the world. Album per pensare e non pensare is a large-format book in which the author’s gentle rhyming words appear side by side with her simple and intentionally unfinished drawings. Each page delicately evokes a moment of everyday life, a thought, a wish, even a dream – all of them visions the reader is encouraged to complete with their own imagination and style. Pots and pans on the stove, a cot ready for sleepy time, a table waiting to be laid, a donkey to ride, clean clothes drying and ready to be worn: in this album of life, which brings us ideas as we read and a feeling of joy as we draw, the care we owe to ourselves, our homes, our seas and our animals ultimately leads us to celebrate the Earth in all its fullness and perfection: “Leopard or daisy / it is she who changes name / who plays with life”.
Reading age: 7-10 years
Album per pensare e non pensare
Mariangela Gualtieri
Bompiani, 2025