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The perspective in history

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I started the storyboard. Slowly because this month was a busy. The next month will be a busy :S

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In this story, I also tried to represent atmospheres, environments that I had seen before in movies, cartoons and that seemed perfect for this project.
Surfing on the internet I found the Steampunk and it was love at first sight!

After a month fulled with emails between me and Andrea, we finally took a decision on which story had to be illustrate. We chose some features the story should have, then asked to Viorica to write it.

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“Storie scombinate per Matteo” is an illustrated book for children 7/8 years of age, conceived as a gift for a boy named Matteo. The project wasdeveloped through a long-distance collaboration: the illustrations were created in Barcelona, the texts in Reggio Emilia, the graphic layout in Palermo.
The volume consists of 28 color pages in hardcover and was printed by the publishing house Qanat of Palermo.

Contents:

- Giufà, Sicilian folk tale

- Itsy Bitsy Spider, popular English nursery rhyme

- La lepre e la tartaruga, revised version of Aesop’s fable “The Hare and the Tortoise”

- Ricciolo di neve e Raggio di sole, nursery rhyme written by Irene Russo

- I tre porcellini, revised versione of the traditional “the Three Little Pigs” fairy tale

- La Ola, short story written by Bonaria Staffetta

People of the project: Bonaria Staffetta, Irene Russo, Rosy Giambona