Hideaway

Alessandro Sanna is considered one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated books for children and readers of all ages and has received many awards and had many exhibitions. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy. Alessandro Sanna is currently the Italian Children’s Laureate.
Melania Longo is an art historian with a specialization in Museum Education Services, with a focus on Children's Literature. She uses art as a tool in training courses, for children and adults, cultivating it as a deposit of knowledge, narratives and experiences, to learn to see and know. She develops study activities around illustrated books, with particular reference to the reading of images and their role in the formation of the imagination of each of us. Hideaway is her first book to be translated into English.