CV GIORGIA GRILLI
Personal Info:
Address: Via Eugenio Curiel 12, 40134, Bologna, Italy
Phone: 0039 3488521089
Email: giorgia.grilli@unibo.it
CAREER AND EDUCATION
2021 to date: Associate Professor of Children's Literature and History of Illustration for Children, Department of Education, University of Bologna.
2000-2021: Tenured Researcher and Teacher of Children's Literature, Department of Education, University of Bologna.
1998: PhD in Children’s Literature, Department of Education, University of Bologna.
1993: Giorgia Grilli graduated in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bologna (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy) with a thesis that was an interdisciplinary study in P. L. Travers' character Mary Poppins. This study was later further elaborated and became an essay in English, published in the United States with the title Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins. The Governess as provocateur by Routledge, New York, 2007, in the series “Children's Literature and Culture”, edited by Jack Zipes (with a foreword by Neil Gaiman). Routledge released a paperback edition of the book in 2014.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Grilli's fields of interest are children's literature, its history and its contemporary developments; literary topoi in children's literature; picturebooks; literary genres; representations of childhood in literature and cinema, the contribution of children’s literature to posthuman studies.
She writes about topics concerning children's literature on a regular basis in specialized magazines, and in the literary supplement of the Italian newspaper Tuttolibri (“La Stampa”).
She translated from English into Italian several critical essays written by important scholars in the field (Jack Zipes, Alison Lurie), and novels and picturebooks by famous authors of children's and young adult literature (P.L. Travers, Aidan Chambers, Frank C. Boyce, Neil Gaiman, John Green, David Almond…).
She contributed the entry for some authors of children's literature in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, edited by Jack Zipes, Oxford University Press, 2006.
She has been interviewed by the Italian national television (RAI Educational) about her theory of the ‘invisibility' of children's literature ( http://www.letteratura.rai.it/articoli/linvisibilità-dei-libri-per-ragazzi/15946/default.aspx [https://mail.unibo.it/owa/redir.aspx?C=4a666eec18ea44b5bccafeb44f43c829&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.letteratura.rai.it%2farticoli%2flinvisibilit%c3%a0-dei-libri-per-ragazzi%2f15946%2fdefault.aspx] ), exposing the marginality of anything that concerns children in contemporary Western culture.
Inspired, among other things, by her critical essay, Myth, Symbol and meaning in Mary Poppins. The Governess as provocateur (Routledge, New York, 2007) the Swedish theatre director Stina Ancker staged the musical Mary Poppins, performed at the theatre of Goteborg during 2008/2009. Since then, Grilli has been collaborating with the Goteborg Opera Theatre by writing Critical Introductions in the Programmes of the Operas or Ballets that have something to do with the world of Children's Literature or Fairy Tales (The Magic Flute, by Mozart; The Sleeping Beauty, with musics by Tchaikowskij, etc.).
She is part of the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Children's Literature “Libri&Liberi” (www.librietliberi.org).
She is co-director of a series of critical essays on Children’s Literature for the publisher Junior Edizioni.
In 2013, on the occasion of Bologna Children's Book Fair's 50th Anniversary, she has been asked by the Fair to edit a 500 page volume in two languages - Italian and English - in which many important experts and scholars of Children's Literature from all over the world wrote on children's book's recent history in their own country, thereby creating a useful tool for a comparative study of the development of children's literature and for a study of children's books in their deep relationship with the social, political and cultural context they belong to.
On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Bologna Children's Book Fair, Giorgia Grilli also organized a big international conference at the University of Bologna called "Children's Literature: Fifty Years of Books for Children Around the World", in which 15 foreign scholars were invited to present a lecture on children's books in their own country.
She has been part of the International Jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2026.
Participation in national/international conferences
2025 (31 March) speaker in the Panel: Le cattedre di Pollicino. Ibby e la ricerca universitaria in Italia sulla Letteratura per l’infanzia, with a speech on embarking on the work of the international jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Bologna Children’s Bookfair.
2025 (1 April) speaker in the Panel: “A Quest for the Last Unicorn: Finding Pleasure in Children’s Nonfiction” with the speech: “The position of Nonfiction in Children’s Literature”. Other speakers: Marc Aronson (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA), Tina Bilban (Institute Nova Revija), Mingzhou Zhang (International Youth Library, Shanghai), Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang (Malmo University). Bologna Children’s Bookfair.
2024 (8 November) keynote speech “L’albo illustrato di divulgazione per l’infanzia nel panorama internazionale” at the opening of the Exhibition “Beauty and the World”, displaying over 600 nonfiction picturebooks by Biblioteca Casa Piani in Imola (held from november 2024 to March 2025).
2023 (18th November) keynote speech in the Nonfiction panel at the China Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in Shanghai, where she curated the Exhibition “Beauty and the World: The New Nonfiction Picturebook”.
2023 (7th March) she takes part in the international panel “Censorship of Books: What is the State of Children’s Book Banning Around the World and What is Being Done?”, within the programme of Bologna Children’s Book Fair. With Barbara Marcus (President and Publisher of Random House Children’s Publishing, USA), Jon Anderson (President and Publisher of Simon and Schuster Children, and Member of the National Coalition Against Censorship Board, USA), Doris Breitmoser (Managing Director of Association of Children’s Literature / Arbeitskreis fur Jugendliteratur, Germania), Dora Batalim, (Università Cattolica di Lisbona, Portogallo), David Levithan (author, USA).
2023 (5th March) keynote speech in the panel “Le Meraviglie: Nonfiction e albo illustrato” with the authors and illustrators Crushiform (France) e Neil Packer (UK). The Panel was organized in Biblioteca Sala Borsa, within the Programme of Bologna Children's Book Fair.
2022 (17th June) speech titled “I nuovi albi illustrati di divulgazione per l’infanzia: la conoscenza come esperienza attiva, dialogica, estetica” in the Convegno Nazionale Siped (University of Foggia)
2020 (19th November) speech titled “The Specificity of Children’s Literature” in the International Conference “Fostering Dialogue: Teaching Children’s Literature at University Level” (19-21 novembre), organized by University of Padua, University of Arizona and University of Waikato (New Zeland).
2020 (14th November) keynote speech in the Zoom Conference ‘Smart and Beautiful. The Great Renewal of Non Fiction in Children’s Books’, organized by China Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) of Shanghai.
2020 (3rd September) speech on the New Non-Fiction Picturebook in the panel titled “Popular Science: Who is the Author?” within the Zoom Conference organized by Moscow Book Fair (Russia).
2019 (15-16th November) speech titled “Subversive Mary Poppins and Subversive Children’s Literature” within the panel called ‘Marginality and Displacement in Children’s Literature’ during the Symposium ‘Children’s Literature and Children’s Lives’ held in Villa la Pietra, New York University Florence.
2019 (26-28th September) speech titled “Nonfiction and Imagination. Picturebooks that make children think, feel, wonder, grasp, connect, as opposed to simply accept a given explanation of the world” during the 7th international conference of the European Network of Picturebook Research titled ‘Verbal and Visual Strategies in Non-Fiction Picturebooks’, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
2019 (16th March) Giorgia Grilli gave a speech titled 'Stereotyped childhood in illustration' in Salzburg, within the workshop of the European project Europa Creativa titled 'Mapping', led by Teatro Testoni Bologna.
2019 (27th February) took part in the panel “Childhood and Art” within the Festival 'Visions of Future', organized by Teatro Testoni Ragazzi, Bologna.
2018 (6-7th December) speech titled ‘Da dove vengono i bambini. I classici per l’infanzia e la Superstizione Parentale’ [Where do children come from? Children’s classics and the parental fallacy] at the conference “Sentieri tra i classici. Vecchie e nuove proposte della letteratura per l’infanzia e per ragazzi”, Brixen, Libera Università di Bolzano.
2018 (3-4-5 December) speech titled ‘Essere e Tempo nella Letteratura per l’infanzia’ [Time and Being in Children’s Literature] in the international conference “Philosophy and Childhood. Theory and Practice”, Dipartimento di Filosofia / Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Università di Bologna
2018 (11-14 September) took part in I Jornadas Internacionales de SignificArte. Lenguajes artisticos para una education con sentido, in the workshop ‘Madre, Madres’ with a speech called “L’altra madre” [The Other Mother]. Facultad de Ciencias de la Education, Università di Sevilla (Spagna)
2017 (21st September) Chair of the international Conference “New Trends in Children’s Publishing” organised by Federation of European Publishers (FEP) and by Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE), with the collaboration of Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The conference was held in Sala dello Stabat Mater, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio, Bologna.
2017 (3rd February) speech “Il Viaggio e l’Approdo. Una ricerca internazionale sulla ‘lettura’ di un picturebook senza parole con bambini migranti” [The Journey and the Arrival. An international Research on ‘reading’ the wordless picturebook The Arrival by Shaun Tan with immigrant children], in the Seminar ‘L’internazionalizzazione della ricerca e la letteratura per l’infanzia’, [International Research in Children’s Literature] Università Cattolica, Milano.
2017 (20th January) speech “Le fiabe di Andersen nella storia dell’illustrazione” [H.C. Andersen’s Fairy Tales in the History of Illustration], panel promoted by the Hans Christian Andersen Centre of Odense, by the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma.
2016 (9th July) speech “Lo studio della letteratura per l’infanzia nel panorama internazionale” [Studying Children’s Literature internationally], panel of Children’s Literature, Summer School SIPED su ‘La Ricerca in Pedagogia’, Università di Bergamo.
2015 (18-20 June) speech “Italian Children's Literature: Past History and Present Challanges”, in the panel “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death. The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children's Literature”, Longwood University, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Annual Conference of the Children's Literature Association, invited as Distinguished Scholar, International Sponsorship Grant)
2015 (6-8 May) speech "La città che non c'è. I classici per l'infanzia", in the international conference 'Il bambino e la città. Il piccolo flaneur' [The Child and the City], Università di Bologna.
2015 (18th April) speech “Italian Children's Books' Illustrators. A hystorical overview” in the international conference “Where the Wild Books Are”, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA.
2015 (31 March) she organizes the Conference “150 Years of Wonderland / 150 anni di meraviglie” celebrating 150 years of Alice in Wonderland, with Masolino d'Amico (Università di Roma 3), Martin Salisbury (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK), Peter Hunt (Cardiff University), Laura Tosi (Università di Ca' Foscari, Venezia), Lisbeth Zwerger, Gianluca Farinelli (Cineteca di Bologna), within Bologna Children's Book Fair.
2014 (27 March) she organizes "Scrivere per l'infanzia", a scholarly workshop on the theme 'writing for children', with the partecipation of David Almond, Università di Bologna.
2014 (28 October) she organizes the workshop "Nella tana dell'Orco. Storia e storie del divoratore di bambini", with Tommaso Braccini (Università di Torino), Università di Bologna.
2014 (November) she takes part in the planning of the research project “Nature and Children's Literature” (NaChiLit), Università di Bergen, Norway.
2013 (28 March) she organizes the international conference “Children's Literature: Fifty Years of Books for Children from Around the World”, Università di Bologna (in collaboration with Bologna Children's Book Fair), with 15 international lecturers (scholars and experts).
2013 (9 October) she organizes the workshop "A Hundred Years of Pucture Books Illustration and Picturebooks", with Peter Hunt (Cardiff University), Università di Bologna.
2012 (6 December) she organizes the seminar "Radici profonde. Le foreste dei fratelli Grimm e l'Appennino di Emma Perodi. Riflessioni sul fiabesco", with Antonio Faeti (Università di Bologna) and Jack Zipes (Università del Minnesota).
2012 (29th March – 1st April) speech “How Darwin Changed Children's Literature”, in The Child and The Book Conference, Cambridge, UK
2006 (30th November) speech “La letteratura per l'infanzia e il dubbio amletico” [Children’s Literature and the Hamletic doubt], Conference on Italian Children’s Literature organized by Italian Institute of Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
Organization and Curator of exhibitions of Illustrations and books for children
2024 (febbraio). She is a member of the international jury of the Bologna Ragazzi Award, section Nonfiction and The Seas.
2024 (November – March 2025) organizes “Beauty and the World. The New Nonfiction Picturebook”: a selection of 600 volumes chosen among the most innovative nonfiction picturebooks published since 2000 all over the world, at Biblioteca Casa Piani, Imola.
2023 organizes “Beauty and the World. The New Nonfiction Picturebook”: a selection of 200 among the most innovative nonfiction picturebooks published since 2000 all over the world, at the China Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in Shanghai.
2023 “Beauty and the World. The New Nonfiction Picturebook / Il nuovo albo illustrato di divulgazione”. With Ilaria Dindelli, organization and scientific curation of an Exhibition of 600 nonfiction picturebooks selected among the most innovative and beautiful volumes published internationally since 2000. In Salaborsa, Piazza Coperta, 5 March - 22 April.
2014 “Ugo Fontana. Illustrare per l'infanzia”. With Fabian Negrin, organizes and curates a retrospective exhibition of the original artwork of one of the Italian Masters of Illustration for children, set at BCBF, then in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
International and National Awards and Recognitions:
2026 She is a member of the international jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
2024 Premio CIRSE in the section RSE Journal (Ricerca Storico-Educativa) for the chapter “The Artistic Nonfiction Picturebook”, in Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, Anne-Stefi Teigland (eds), Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks. Theoretical and Analytical Approaches, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
2022 Premio Siped (Italian Pedagogical Society) for the book Di cosa parlano i libri per bambini. La letteratura per l'infanzia come critica radicale, Donzelli, 2021.
2022 Premio “Lo straniero” for the book Di cosa parlano i bambini. La letteratura per l’infanzia come critica radicale, Donzelli, 2021.
2015 Literacy Research Association Edward B. Fry Award for the volume edited by Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colmer, Carmen Martinez Roldan, Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives: An international inquiry with immigrant children and The Arrival (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), in which, with Marcella Terrusi, I wrote a chapter concerning a research made with immigrant children in a primary school of Bologna.
2015 Distinguished Scholar, an ‘International Scholarship Grant’ given by the Children’s Literature Association.
2006, Premio Andersen: Best Translator, for my translation of the book by Neil Gaiman La commedia tragica o tragedia comica di Mr Punch, Mondadori, Milano, 2005.
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPHIES:
G. Grilli, L’incanto del mondo. Bellezza e conoscenza negli albi illustrati nonfiction per l’infanzia, Roma, Donzelli, 2025.
G.Grilli, Di cosa parlano i libri per bambini. La letteratura per l’infanzia come critica radicale, Roma, Donzelli, 2021
L. Cantatore, N. Galli Laforest, G. Grilli, M. Negri, G. Piccinini, I. Tontardini, E. Varrà (a cura di) In cerca di guai. Studiare la letteratura per l’infanzia, Edizioni Junior, Reggio Emilia, 2020.
G. Grilli (edited by) Non-Fiction Picturebooks: Sharing Knowledge as an Aesthetic Experience, Pisa, ETS, 2020.
G. Grilli, Public Schools: formare il giovane uomo ideale. Studio di una istituzione inglese tra storia dell'educazione e letteratura per l'infanzia, collana BAGHEERA, p. 1-385, PISA, ETS, 2017, ISBN: 978884674988.
G. Grilli, F. Negrin, Ugo Fontana. Illustrare per l'infanzia / Ugo Fontana: Illustrating for Children, Pisa, ETS, 2014.
G. Grilli (edited by), Bologna – Fifty Years of Children's Books From Around the World. Bologna Children's Book Fair Anniversary 1964-2013, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2013.
G. Grilli, Libri nella giungla. Orientarsi nell'editoria per ragazzi, Roma, Carocci, 2012.
Emy Beseghi, G. Grilli (edited by), La letteratura invisibile. Infanzia e libri per bambini, Roma Carocci, 2011
G. Grilli, Myth, Symbol and Meaning in Mary Poppins. The Governess as Provocateur, New York, Routledge, 2007 (edizione paperback 2014).
G. Grilli, In volo, dietro la porta. Mary Poppins e Pamela Lyndon Travers, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 1997, (ristampa 2002, 2007).
BOOKS EDITED by, and/or INTRODUCED by Grilli:
Introduction of Antonio Faeti, Dacci questo veleno. Fiabe fumetti feuillettons bambine, Babalibri Educazioni, 2023.
Introduction of Felix Salten, Bambi. La vita di un capriolo, Roma, Contrasto (collana “Tracce” a cura di Goffredo Fofi, Roberto Koch e Telmo Pievani)
G. Grilli (edited by) Non-Fiction Picturebooks: Sharing Knowledge as an Aesthetic Experience, Pisa, ETS, 2020.
(with Fabian Negrin) ‘Il freddo degli anni Cinquanta', Introduction to Le Avventure di Pinocchio, illustrate da Leonardo Mattioni, Firenze, Edizioni Clichy, 2014, pp. 229-240.
G. Grilli (edited by), Bologna – Fifty Years of Children's Books From Around the World. Bologna Children's Book Fair Anniversary 1964-2013, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2013.
E. Beseghi, G. Grilli (eds), La letteratura invisibile. Infanzia e libri per bambini, Roma Carocci, 2011.
Introduction and translation of A. Lurie, Bambini per sempre. Il rapporto tra arte e vita, tra finzione e biografia, Milano, Mondadori, 2005.
Introduction of A. Faeti, Specchi e riflessi. Nuove letture per altre immagini, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 2005.
Introduction and translation of Jack Zipes, Spezzare l'incantesimo. Teorie radicali su fiabe e racconti popolari, Milano Mondadori, 2004.
Introduction of A. Faeti, Le figure del mito, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 2001.
Introduction of A. Faeti, Il Lama e il bambino. Giungle, fantasmi, frontiere, contrasti: l'irriducibile alterità di Kipling, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 1999.
Introduction of A. Faeti, Segni e Sogni, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 1998.
CHAPTERS in critical volumes:
2025 ‘Legami astrali, corpi ibridi, madri animali. Letteratura per l’infanzia e riflessioni sul rapporto tra umano e non-umano’, in Antropocene 4800. Letteratura, ambiente, ecocritica, Lecce, Milella, 2025, pp. 109 - 128 (QUADERNI DI SYMBOLON).
2024 ‘Nonfiction’, in The Routledge Companion of Children’s Literature, New York, Routledge, in stampa.
2023 ‘I nuovi albi illustrate di divulgazione per l’infanzia: la conoscenza come esperienza attiva, dialogica, estetica’, in Massimiliano Fiorucci, Isabella Loiodice, Manuela Ladogana (a cura di) Scuola, Democrazia, Partecipazione e Cittadinanza in occasione dei 100 anni dalla nascita di Mario Lodi, Bari, Pensa Multimedia, pp. 58-70.
2021 ‘The Artistic Non-Fiction Picturebook’, in Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, Anne-Stefi Teigland (Eds), Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks, Theoretical and Analytical Approaches, Oslo, Scandinavian University Press, 2021, pp. 22-36.
2020 ‘Il corpo bambino e la natura umana. La letteratura per l’infanzia come discorso filosofico’, in Cantatore, L. Galli Laforest N., Grilli, G., Negri, M., Piccinini, G. Tontardini, I., Varrà, E., In cerca di guai. Studiare la letteratura per l’infanzia, Edizioni Junior, Reggio Emilia, 2020, pp. 33-68.
2020 ‘Children’s Literature as a subversive discourse’, in Klass, P. e Wolff, L. (eds.), Children’s Literature and Children’s Lives, Firenze, Edizioni Firenze per New York University Florence, 2020, pp. 47-51.
2020 ‘Da dove viene la Letteratura per l’infanzia’, in M.T. Trisciuzzi (a cura di) Sentieri tra i classici. Vecchie e nuove proposte della letteratura per l’infanzia e per ragazzi, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2020, pp. 185-200.
2020 ‘Re-Enchanting the World. The New Non-fiction Picturebook’, in Non-Fiction Picturebooks: Sharing Knowledge as an Aesthetic Experience, Pisa, ETS, 2020, pp. 11-49.
2020 ‘Beauty and the World’, in Non-Fiction Picturebooks: Sharing Knowledge as an Aesthetic Experience, Pisa, ETS, 2020, pp. 267-293.
2019 ‘L’utopia realizzata. Gli albi illustrati non fiction per l’infanzia e l’intreccio esemplare tra scienza e arte’, in S. Barsotti, L. Cantatore (a cura di), Letteratura per l’infanzia. Forme, temi e simboli del contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci, 2019.
2018 ‘I volti dell’Avventura’, in G. Giovannetti e L. Voltan (a cura di), Come è bella l’Avventura, Pavia, Edizioni Effigie, 2018, pp. 511-526.
2018 ‘Scrivere d’Avventura per ragazzi. L’opera di Mino Milani’, in Oblò n. 3: Mino Milani, a cura di Hamelin, pp. 54-80, Bologna, Hamelin, 2018
2017 ‘L’Approdo. Una ricerca internazionale sulla lettura di un picturebook senza parole con bambini migranti’, in S. Polenghi, G. Bandini (a cura di), Enlarging One’s Vision. Strumenti per la ricerca educativa in ambito internazionale, volume II, Milano, Educatt, 2017.
2014 ‘A (visual) Journey to Italy with Shaun Tan and eight children. Bewilderment, surprise and wonder in travelling and reading wordless picturebooks or “silent books”' (with Marcella Terrusi), in Evelyn Arizpe, Teresa Colmer, Carmen Martinez Roldan, Visual Journeys through Wordless Narratives: An international inquiry with immigrant children and The Arrival, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
2011 ‘L'inconveniente di essere nati. La vocazione profonda della letteratura per l'infanzia', in Donatella Lombello (a cura di), La letteratura per l'infanzia oggi. Epistemologia, didattica universitaria e competenze per le professionalità educative, Brescia, Pernsa Multimedia, 2011, pp. 76-81.
2011 ‘Bambini, insetti, fate e Charles Darwin', in E. Beseghi, G. Grilli (a cura di), La letteratura invisibile. Infanzia e libri per bambini, Roma, Carocci, 2011 (pp. 21-57)
2006 ‘I “classici” inglesi', in Tratti, n. 71, Faenza, Moby Dick, 2006.
2003 ‘Le maschere del mondo e i buchi delle serrature. Della curiosità, del leggere e del raccontare storie', in E. Beseghi (a cura di), Infanzia e Racconto., Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2003, pp. 95-130.
2001 ‘L'infanzia malinconica', in Hamelin Associazione Culturale, L'età d'oro. Storie di bambini e metafore d'infanzia, Bologna, Pendragon, (pp. 91-104), 2001.
1999 ‘Per una interpretazione dell'idea imperiale in Kipling', in G. Grilli, E. Varrà (a cura di), Il Lama e il bambino. Giungle, fantasmi, frontiere, contrasti: l'irriducibile alterità di Kipling, Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', (pp. 25-46), 1999.
1998 ‘I ladri di bambini', in Hamelin Associazione Culturale (a cura di), Cesena, Società Editrice ‘Il ponte vecchio', 1998, (pp. 81-105).
1997 ‘L'ombra e lo specchio. Fiaba e filosofia tra apparenza e simbolo', in E. Beseghi, Specchi delle diversità, Milano, Mondadori, 1997 (pp. 29-41).
1996 ‘Le lavagne dell'impero', in E.Beseghi (a cura di), Adolescenza, Milano, Mondadori, 1996 (pp. 177-194).
ARTICLES in Academic journals:
2025 ‘Storie di navi, di case, di cose. L’opera di Roberto Innocenti e la capacità di vedere/narrare oltre l’umano, in ENCYCLOPAIDEIA, 29, pp. 17-28.
2025 ‘Bellezza e creatività nei nuovi albi illustrati di divulgazione’, in RIVISTA DI STORIA DELL’EDUCAZIONE, 12, pp. 121-129.
2025 ‘I libri di divulgazione per l’infanzia nel panorama internazionale. Questioni teoriche, cenni storici e nuovi sviluppi’, in HISTORY OF EDUCATION & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE, 20, pp. 247-268.
2024 'Il cosmo come genitore. Un'idea di famiglia nella letteratura per l'infanzia', in STUDI SULLA FORMAZIONE, 27, 131-146.
2022 ‘The Non-fiction Picturebook. Knowing the World as an Integrated Experience’, in “ENCYCLOPAIDEIA. Journal of Phenomenology and Education”, Vol. 26, N. 64, pp. 33-43.
2022 ‘Le voci del non-umano e le ibridazioni del corpo bambino. La letteratura per l’infanzia come meditazione intorno al rapporto uomo-natura’, in “MeTis. Mondi educativi. Temi, indagini, suggestioni”, 12 (2) 2022, 164-180.
2020 ‘The New Non-Fiction Picturebook: Mending the Rift Between Science and Art’, in in “Libri & Liberi. Journal of research on Children Literature and Culture”, 9 (1), 2020, pp. 75-89.
2019 ‘La città che non c’è. Bambini, natura e ambiente urbano nella letteratura per l’infanzia’, in “ENCYCLOPAIDEIA, Journal of Phenomenology and Education”, Vol. 23, n. 54 (2019), pp. 65-91.
2018 ‘Per un superamento delle due culture. I nuovi albi illustrati di divulgazione per l’infanzia e l’intreccio possibile e fecondo tra scienza e arte.’, in “STUDI SULLA FORMAZIONE”, V. 21, (2018), pp. 2017-230.
2018 ‘Books for children that cause no harm to adults / Books for adults that cause no harm to children. Orecchio acerbo: A Pioneering Publishing Experience in Italy’, in “RIVISTA DI STORIA DELL’EDUCAZIONE”, v.2, (2018), pp. 305-324.
2017 ‘L’infanzia malinconica’, in numero monografico di “Hamelin”: “Incompreso. La sfida di raccontare l’infanzia”, vol. 44, Dicembre 2017, pp. 38-56.
2017 ‘To be or not to be. Death as a metaphoric dimension in children's literature’ in “RIVISTA DI STORIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE”, Vol 4, No 1, p. 211-220, ISSN: 2384-8294, doi: 10.4454/rse.v4i1.15
2016 ‘L’importanza di chiamarsi letteratura. La letteratura per l’infanzia e le tesi di Christopher Booker sull’origine e la funzione delle storie’ in “HECL” (History of Education and Children’s Literature), XI,2, pp. 523-537.
2016 ‘Perché Pinocchio è un’icona universale? Ipotesi, spunti ermeneutici e un indizio paleoantropologico’ in “Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in Education”, 11, 3, pp. 107-116.
2015 ‘Terra di confine. Lo studio della letteratura per l’infanzia nel panorama internazionale’, in “RIVISTA DI STORIA DELL’EDUCAZIONE. Periodico del Centro Italiano per la Ricerca Storico-Educativa”, 2/2015, pp. 25-37.
2015 ‘150 anni di meraviglie. Celebrando l’anniversario di Alice’, in “LIBeR”, n. 107, anno XXVIII, lug-set 2015, pp. 34-36.
2015 'English Public Schools and the Moulding of the Englishman', in "HECL. History of Education & Children's Literature", X (1), pp. 643-667.
2014 ‘Lettori migranti e Silent Book: l'esperienza inclusiva nelle narrazioni virtuali', in “Encyclopaideia”, XVIII (38), pp. 67-90.
2012 ‘La passione per i bambini: Lewis Carroll, James M. Barrie e la letteratura per l'infanzia', in “Infanzia”, n. 6, pp. 362-365.
2011 ‘I libri che i bambini non dimenticano', in “Infanzia”, n. 3, pp. 191-194.
2009 ‘La civiltà del lupo', in LiBeR, n. 84, numero speciale.
2009 ‘Senza permesso di lavoro. Il premio Andersen a Roberto Innocenti', in “Infanzia”, mar-apr 2009.
2008 ‘Pop in, Mary!', Introduzione in Programma del musical Mary Poppins del Teatro d'Opera di Goteborg (GöteborgsOperan), prima 18 ott. 2008.
2008 ‘A chat with Brian Selznick', in LiBeRWEB, il portale del mondo dei libri per bambini e ragazzi, 2008.
2005 Intervista a Jerry Spinelli, in LiBeR, n. 66, apr-giu.
2004 Intervista a Neil Gaiman, in LiBeR, n.62, apr-giu.
2004 ‘La verità, vi prego, sui ragazzi. Aidan Chambers', in “Hamelin. Note sull'immaginario collettivo”, a.4, n.11, nov.
TRANSLATIONS:
Novels and Picturebooks:
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Mary Poppins e i vicini di casa, Milano, Fabbri, 2003;
Aidan Chambers, Breaktime, Milano, Fabbri, 2003;
Aidan Chambers, Ora che so, Milano, Fabbri, 2004;
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Milano, Fabbri, 2004;
Neil Gaiman, Il giorno che scambiai mio padre con due pesci rossi, Milano, Mondadori, 2004;
Neil Gaiman, La commedia tragica o tragedia comica di Mister Punch, Milano Mondadori, 2005 [Premio Andersen 2006: Miglior Traduttore];
Neil Gaiman, Mirrormask, Milano, Mondadori, 2006;
Aidan Chambers, Questo è tutto. I racconti del cuscino di Cordelia Kenn, Milano, Fabbri, 2007.
Aidan Chambers, Danza sulla mia tomba, Milano, Fabbri, 2008;
John Green, Colpa delle stelle, Milani, Rizzoli, 2012.
Critical Essays:
Jack Zipes, Spezzare l'incantesimo. Teorie radicali su fiabe e racconti popolari, Milano Mondadori, 2004;
Alison Lurie, Bambini per sempre, Milano, Mondadori, 2005;
Jack Zipes, Chi ha paura dei fratelli Grimm? Le fiabe e l'arte della sovversività, Milano, Mondadori, 2006;
David Almond, Libri e bambini non si addomesticano (discorso di accettazione dell'Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010), in “Infanzia”, n. 3, 2011 (pp. 195-198);
Aidan Chambers, La penna di Anne Frank, Modena, Equilibri, 2011.
For an updated version of the Publications: see specific section.
