To Make a Family

Mario Pennacchio

Mario Pennachio (Potenza, 1973) after a few years as a business manager regrets and abandons Excel spreadsheets to start working with words. With his wife Dina, he founded STEP Language Services, a language services agency with clients all over the world. In addition to boring contracts, incomprehensible financial documents and useless instruction manuals (which, it seems, nobody reads at all), he also translates many children's books from English. He loves to write nursery rhymes to be used for bedtime rituals.

Richolly Rosazza

Richolly Rosazza was born in Ancash, Peru, in 1981. The subject of his artistic research has always been the world of children, in particular the ability of the creative mind, peculiar to children, to transform everything into play. He has been living in Italy since 2007, where he works as a painter and illustrator. In 2012 he illustrated the City of the Sun Calendar and in 2013 some of his illustrations were selected for the Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Books Fair. His publications include the series La famiglia coniglietti (Risfoglia editions), Legami (Kite, 2019), Tutte storie (Kite, 2021), both with texts by Nadia Al Omari, Il signor Alce with texts by Davide Calì (Kite, 2021) and, for Lavieri Per fare una famiglia (by Mario Pennacchio, 2020) and Margherita che guardava le stelle (by Paola Sala, 2022).