Project Description

Libro per bambini “Camilla” Recensioni

🔖 Thoughtful and entertaining reading, with an open and ironic ending

🔖 Sweet, pastel-colored illustrations 🖌️🖼️

🔖 Perfect for exploring the mother–daughter relationship, discussing the challenges of growing up, and reflecting on oneself and one’s personality

And above all, the ending leaves us with a very intriguing question❗❗❗

@bambini_in_lettura

But if a butterfly goes back into its cocoon, will it become a caterpillar again? 🦋

• A delicate and original metaphor about the desire to slow down time, the right to feel out of place, and the importance of saying: “I want to be this way, and it’s wonderful” ✨

• A picture book that gently but powerfully explores identity, growth, expectations, and freedom 💫
Perfect for children reflecting on identity, but also for adults who are afraid of change ⭐️

• The illustrations are poetic, playful, and colorful, just like the most rebellious thoughts 🥰
A gentle caress for the soul 💛

@la_tavola_delle_storie

Camilla is growing up, and her peers seem to have forgotten how wonderful it is to get messy, how thrilling it is to feel the wind in your hair.

CAMILLA is a gentle picture book that, like everything that doesn’t shout, speaks softly to girls and boys.
It says: “Grow up, but don’t lose what makes you happy. Don’t lose yourself.”

With words by Alba White and illustrations by Barbara Marini, CAMILLA explores that in-between space between childhood and adolescence, coloring it with comfort and warmth.

@literaryromance_kids

“Growing Up Is Hard!”

Especially when you’re a giraffe, love playing soccer, and prefer pants and t-shirts.

For Camilla, growing up is really hard to accept. Everyone expects her to become a little giraffe all bows and skirts, but she is different — she just wants to be herself.
When her mother tries to calm her restlessness by teaching her to knit, Camilla finds a very unusual way to push away the time of adulthood!

CAMILLA is a picture book about the struggles — sometimes only imaginary — of growing up. Experiences that everyone goes through, though each in their own unique way.
Literary Romance Kids Edizioni

When I received this text from Alba White, I felt a voice inside me speaking to the little girl I once was.
The one with ripped jeans and sneakers, playing with toy cars and foosball, while Barbies and tea sets stayed tucked away in drawers.
I recognized myself in Camilla, the little giraffe who worries her mother because she doesn’t behave like a “girly girl” and refuses bows and skirts.

In Alba’s words, I also felt that red thread that connects mother and daughter: a loving bond, wonderful but sometimes complicated. Because being a mother isn’t always easy, and neither is being a daughter.

And finally, the challenge of growing up while staying true to yourself.

I am deeply grateful to Alba for entrusting me with this text, and to Literary Romance Kids for believing in our project. ❤️