You Dream And I Stand

By Laura Pesce

In a world without memory and increasingly technology.

The collection of 9 educational fairy tales in Italian aims to stimulate the growth and imagination of little readers with fantasy characters, magical objects, spells, talking about animals, games and mysterious places.

A journey through fairy tales in the company of a fantastic little girl in magical worlds between fairies and gnomes; a fantastical child from a mysterious country and saved by a flying dragon; two fantastic little girls aboard a magical train in the Land of the Midnight Sun; the meeting of a little Indian girl with a spider and the beginning of a tradition; astronomy for children with a queen's daughter; a story of immortality through the journey of an unknown being named Zoe; the death of a Cat Witch in the Cat Kingdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Laura Pesce
• Release date: Apr 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224159550

Laura Pesce

Independent writer of poetry and fantasy in a surreal and alchemical language.

Book preview

Good night Curiosity - 1

Once upon a time, twice , today, who knows...

This fairy tale about sleep is worth listening to and not forgetting.

It talks about fantastic, distant music that gives her wings all the time.

- Hey, mom! Accompany me with my wings across the sky.

Little Curiosity heard the suggestive and infinite melody, then fell asleep and crossed the pure sky.

As if awakening from a long spell, she had access to the mysterious and legendary kingdom of chest, which men had never entered.

It was a magical world of talking books and a chaos of pages passed before her eyes forming stories of poetic animation.

If I were Matisse I would be a great painter who paints light - said a book called Palette of Colors.

Listening to him speak, a giant book entitled Seven Colors of the Rainbow burst into colorful laughter and caused patches of colored lights to appear here and there on the earth.

The little girl, amused, heard something and it seemed like they were calling her name.

- Curiosity, Curiosity...

Clock books, one after the other, with different voices, informed the little girl that the time had come for the sugary wrappers, which fell from clouds of cotton candy sailing across the dark sky.

Curiosity grabbed one and, as if by magic, began to fly through a bright light along with floating fairy messengers heralding the arrival of a fairy carriage departing for the moon that no longer rose on time.

They then saw a traveler passing by, standing still in front of the equally immobile centipede book on