The first Handstand Kids book journeys to Italy to make delicious and nutritious Italian recipes." My friend and her two kids, aged 6 1/2 and 4, tested it out. They liked the recipes and made a ...

“Telephone Tales,” a collection of stories by the Italian children’s writer Gianni Rodari (1920-80), contains a piece called “The War of the Bells,” which begins, “Once upon a time ...

The Book of Whys was an outgrowth of Rodari’s column for the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, L’Unità, which ran in the mid-1950s, in which he responded to children’s ...

Reading this book, children will learn to identify and choose all their favourite pasta shapes. The recommended ages is 5-7. Click on "play" to listen to the interview ...

In the 53 years since the award’s establishment in 1968, 105 children’s and young adult books have won gold medals; of these, 31 are about the Holocaust. (That’s almost 30 percent, if you ...