A SECRET ZOO

Angelica is a very special girl. Her thoughts are like the animals that live in fairy tales: they can be misterious and wise, delicate and spiteful, wild and sometimes evil... walking in a secret zoo...  a book for 6-8 years old children by topipittori.

GIOVANNA HOW OLD R U?

GIOVANNA ZOBOLI -  topi pittori publisher  how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I have a big bed, simple, confortable for reading with two night tables, one different to the other, for the books. I had a wicker cradle covered by a textil printed with spikes, botany poppy and fleurs-de-lis.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I do not like artificial flavours, my favorite food is pasta al forno.

your favorite book to read? I cannot chose just one book, I read tens of books and I love all of them

have you got an imaginary friend? myself.

What do you want to do when you grew up? to watch animals.

 

TOO LATE

The story of Little Richard who wants to be too late published by TOPI PITTORI.
Little Richard who wants to be too late even if everybody is telling him he can’t: too late is too dark; too late is too cold: too late is all closed. And Richard is too little. So, it is impossible. Unless he finds three wonderful friends, whom will help him reach the land of Too Late... A funny, surreal fantastic tale on children’s immense desires: their insatiable lust for adventure and magic and, at the same time, their immense need for love and protection.

SMILING EARTH

Zoomy loves has is breakfast and lunch with good design products and smiling!

have a look to the beautiful products of  smiling planet, they are  all manufactured in the usa with safe, sustainable, recycled, and/or organic materials. The products and designs respect the environment, and their designs make the earth safe and make people smile and ... those smiles are good for the planet, too.

A PURPLE SPOON JUST FOR ZOOMY!

PURPLE EVENING by il Cucchiaino di Alice

A purple risotto with turnip for babies and not only...

Ingredients turnip 1, slice of yellow apple 1, little onion 1, carnaroli or Arborio rice 60 gr (or 30 gr of baby rice each baby), extra virgin olive oil, vegetable stock, parmigiano cheese 1 spoon, butter (only for babies older than 1 year)

Peel the apple and the turnip, cut them in small pieces, add slices of onion.  aggiungere qualche fettina di cipollina.  Brown lightly with extra virgin olive oil, add the vegetable stock and wait blending for 10'. Add the rice and dunk with the vegetable stock.  Go on until the rice will be ready.  At the end die out and add the butter and the parmigiano cheese.

For the baby rice coock the vegetables with the stock and when they are ready add the rice.

ENJOY IT ZOOMY!!!

PETRA HOW OLD R U?

PETRA BARKHOF - stylist  how is your bed? My brother and me have a bunk bed. When it was new we faught to decide who sleeps upstairs. My brother won, but now I build a hut with bedsheets and blankets downstairs, dreaming about travelling to distant lands where it is always summer.

which kind of meal you do not like? I don't like eating. Specially I hate vegetables and meat, except spinach.

which is your favourite dish that your mom prepares to you? rice pudding with cinnamon and sugar

your favorite book to read? A collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, my favorite ones are Snow white and Rumpelstiltskin

have you got an imaginary friend? no, I have my brother, my sister and my very best friend Katrin

KRISZTIAN HOW OLD R U?

KRISZTZAN ZANA - photographer

how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I'm very bad with beds. I'm always sleeping on one which is given or accessible. I never really had a cradle when I was kid, probably that's the reason why I don't pay much attention on beds. It is a funny story: my first bed was inherited from my parents: They cut their double bed into half and a half was given to me, the other half was placed in our weekend house.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I'm a big fan of international cuisine! I love to try out new dishes. My favorite is s scrambled eggs with a sliced frankfurter, topped with paprika. But my taste always change periodically as far as I remember.

your favorite book to read? I am a big fan of comic books

have you got an imaginary friend? Not really, but I always wished to have one, especially because I'm a single child

which photo did you see first? I am growing up on amateur family pictures, I have just realized what photography means for real. The first photograph I saw is a beauty poster on the wall at my father's hair saloon.

SIMONE HOW OLD R U?

SIMONE TONUCCI - ORECCHIO ACERBO publisher  how is your bed? and your cradle when you were baby? I have a bunk bed, I do not remember my cot.. I think was the same of my older brothers.

which kind of meal you do not like? which is your favourite dish that your mom prepare to you? I do not like chick peas with codfish. I love meat with mashed potatos, I am able to create amazing castles in my dish with smashed potatos and the pieces of meats are doors, windows and bridges.

your favorite book to read? Il barone inesistente by Italo Calvino, I made all the drawings!

have you got an imaginary friend? No.

What do you want to do when you grew up? I will be a "madonnaro"! the sidewalk painter!

JOHANN HOW OLD R U?

JOHANN - Kalon Studios, designer

How was your cot – and bed as a child? I slept in a simple all wood crib with round dowels.  It had one height, was small and unobtrusive.  Probably like many of the simple all wood cribs still available today. My bed is a mattress on the floor and later a metal framed bunk bed.

Which is your favorite dish your mum used to cook for you? What meal don’t you like at all? I love milk rice with cinnamon and sugar. My family are hunters which periodically disturb me so I don't eat fowl for a while as I tell them that birds are my friends.  I also make the duck hunt exceedingly difficult for whoever I am accompanying.  I remember my grandfathers friend saying to him that he would never have me along again as he couldn't fire a single shot.  I now eat fowl.

What was your favorite book? I liked Max und Moritz.

Did you have an imaginary friend? No imaginary friends, just imagination.

THE INVISIBLE DOG

Zoomy loves animals, as every kid in the world he would love to have a dog! It is not so easy as you know, you have to take care of a dog, feed him, bring him around in sunny days as in foggy or raining ones.... but there is a perfect dog for all, for the kids but most of all for the parents...

here some of the 2,000 people down the streets of Brooklyn on a Sunday afternoon with their “invisible dogs”, the leashes were on loan from the current owner of 51 Bergen Street, New York City, the factory space where the invisible dog toy was invented in the 1970s.

The event is one of the last missions of Improv Everywhere, created in August of 2001 by Charlie Tood Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 mission involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

PETE HOW OLD R U?

PETER OYLER - designer

how is your bed I have a wooden bed though I prefer to sleep in an inflatable yellow raft.  It is more exciting.

which kind of meal you do not like? and your favourite? I hate lima beans.  I love grilled cheese.

your favorite book to read? I’ve always loved books … Curious George, Where the Wild Things Are, Paddington the Bear, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…

have you got an imaginary friend? I only ever have one imaginary friend and it is very brief.  He is a monkey and stayed with me for 2 days while I was on vacation with my family.  It was a short lived and very exciting friendship.

 

IL GRANDE ALFREDO - the adventures of a clown doctor

From Spider’s acrobatic pencil comes the incredible story of the Great Alfredo published by orecchio acerbo. Alfredo is a clown doctor, a scrupulous scientist of laughter. He loves his audience and wants to make them happy. He measures his success by the number of smiles he can raise!! Then comes a serious accident. Stuck in his hospital bed, he loses neither his cheerfulness nor his imagination. He comes up with new numbers and new sketches, because it is possible to be cured by laughter...

WAITING FOR SPRING PRINCESS

Zoomy is waiting for Spring ... be inspired by the following pictures!

Thanks to LMNOP magazine

Photographer: Ian MacPherson,  Styling: Sunitra Martinelli. Hair & Make up: Chris King,  Floral Headpieces: Saskia Havekes.

A BETTER WORLD JUST WITH A QUICK LUNCH?

New amazing line of cotton placemats for adults and children: Less Ego More Eco by the creative studio due mani non bastano. + - These basic and elementary graphic signs on the placemates invites both grown-ups and kids to actual actions!

Less Ego More Eco are just four words, telling us a positive and proposing thinking, towards nature, society, our present and our future. Words built with incisive and playful illustrations, for those who are already grown-ups and for those who will be growing up.

www.duemaninonbastano.it