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Favole d’oro

Tales for children of all ages

These fables, inspired by traditional folk lullabies, are part of a larger project that includes 12 sung songs that you can listen for free on spotify or on this site.

From this, was born a book with works accompanied by the original texts of the lullabies.

From this idea also comes this collection of fables: often we had to tell some fairy tales to our daughter to make her fall asleep. Searching on internet we found some were too long (we added the necessary reading time at the beginning of each story for this purpose, based on a suggestion from a friend) and others simply not suitable. So often we had to invent them.Some are simple, some absolutely bizarre and absurd with sudden and ironic endings. But we also saw that often these were the favorites of our baby girl, so we decided to write some.

In these stories there is a lot of our personal experience and many parts are inspired by what surrounds us in Italy, but also by distant legends that it is nice to imagine simply for what they are.

In the last ten years we fell in love with the territory of the Larian triangle near the Como Lake and decided to move in order to grow our daughter in a more natural environment surrounded by mountains, lakes and rivers.Some stories are set in small villages of this environment also to make our contribution to enhance and promote this wonderful territory and some in other parts of Italy.

We thought that a handy little book, to be kept on the bedside table, with some fables to read in bed before falling asleep, would have been convenient to many as it would have been convenient for us at that time!

We therefore combined this with the creations of our talented friends who created unique artwork.

Moreover, this was also an excellent opportunity to promote their works and give them the deserved visibility.We have divided into two distinct sections the stories inspired by the popular lullabies and the others invented by us and by some friends who had ‘something’ to tell and who, fascinated by the project, gave their contribution with their fables andIn this edition we have also tried to put a small background moral and some useful lessons in our tales, and we decided to deal with topics that can sometimes be considered difficult to deal with children… and even with adults!

Some dear friends then, fascinated by the project, gave their contribution with their fables and their ideas.In particular, this publication was produced in collaboration with the non-profit association WHYNOT (www.whynotonlus.it), which was born from a crazy idea like ours and then turned into a concrete help for the disadvantaged peoples of the world.

We are sincerely proud to be part of this and, in this regard, we have made our publications a way of supporting this fantastic initiative in a small way.

Enjoy the reading!

Roberto and Sabrina