Paola Peretti – författare

'A simply told, bitter-sweet story, with a powerful poetic message' - Jacqueline WilsonNominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 and the IBBY Honour List 2020. A novel for all ages about a young girl losing her sight, inspired by the author's own life story. For fans of Wonder, The Little Prince and The Hen Who Dreamed She Could FlyMafalda is a nine-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family, and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed. A moving, empowering tale of courage and determination that will inspire young and old.

''A simply told, bitter-sweet story, with a powerful poetic message'' - Jacqueline WilsonA novel for all ages about a young girl losing her sight, inspired by the author''s own life story. For fans of Wonder, The Little Prince and The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly.Mafalda is a nine-year-old girl who knows one thing: some time in the next six months her sight will fail completely. Can Mafalda find a way through a seemingly dark future and still go to school, play football and look after her beloved cat? With the help of her family, and her friends, Mafalda needs to discover the things that will be important to her when her sight has failed. A moving, empowering tale of courage and determination that will inspire young and old.

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl's battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships.Mafalda is thirteen and has been blind since she was ten. Her best friend is the cheerfully rule-breaking Filippo, and she is accompanied everywhere by Ottimo Turcaret, her devoted cat. Mafalda is always looking on the bright side, thinking of things she can do both now and in the future despite her loss of sight. But other things are worrying her too: her father who has lost his job and is now in the depths of depression, refusing to leave his bed; and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems very interested in Filippo . . . So now Mafalda has to start thinking what Filippo really means to her . . .Then two new adults come into her life: Elsa, a homeless young woman, and Nino, the elderly upstairs neighbour with an awful temper and a great passion for Charles Dickens. Little by little, Mafalda learns their stories, and how their lives had also been shaped by brave and difficult choices. A moving sequel to THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND THE CHERRY TREE

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl''s battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships.Mafalda is 13 and has been blind since she was 10. Her best friend is the cheerfully rule-breaking Filippo, and she is accompanied everywhere by Ottimo Turcaret, her devoted cat. Mafalda is always looking on the bright side, thinking of things she can do both now and in the future despite her loss of sight. But other things are worrying her too: her father who has lost his job and is now in the depths of depression, refusing to leave his bed; and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems very interested in Filippo . . . So now Mafalda has to start thinking what Filippo really means to her . . .Then two new adults come into her life: Elsa, a homeless young woman, and Signor Nino, the elderly upstairs neighbour with an awful temper and a great passion for Charles Dickens. Little by little, Mafalda learns their stories, and how their lives had also been shaped by brave and difficult choices. A moving sequel to THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME AND THE CHERRY TREE

Ten-year-old Mafalda hides the fact that she is going blind from her family and friends in this lyrical, bittersweet debut novel from Italian author Paola Peretti that shows you how to overcome the darkness—even when you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel.There are a lot of things ten-year-old Mafalda cares a lot about. Like, counting the stars in the night sky, playing soccer, and climbing the cherry tree outside her school. Mafalda even goes so far as to keep a list of all these things, because soon she won’t be able to do them anymore—because she’s going blind. Even with her bad eyesight Mafalda can see that people are already treating her differently—and that’s the last thing she wants. So, she hides the fact that her vision is deteriorating faster than anyone predicted, and she makes a plan: When the time is right, she’ll go live in the cherry tree, just like her favorite book character. But as Mafalda loses her sight, surprising things come in to focus. With the help of her family and friends both old and new, Mafalda discovers the things that matter most.

Mafal''de devyat'' let, ona nosit ochki s tolstymi zheltymi steklami i znaet naizust'' "Barona na dereve" Italo Kal''vino i obozhaet svoego kota. U nee redkoe zabolevanie setchatki, i skoro ej grozit polnaya slepota.. Еj strashno okazat''sya v temnote, poetomu ona vedet dnevnik, gde zapisyvaet, chto imenno bol''she ne smozhet delat'', naprimer, schitat'' zvezdy, igrat'' v futbol s mal''chishkami ili zabirat''sya na chereshnyu v shkol''nom dvore. Ona obozhaet eto derevo, kotoroe stalo ee edinstvennym ubezhishchem, i izdaleka privetstvuet ego, kak luchshego druga. No vot beda, s kazhdym dnem mezhdu tochkoj, gde Mafal''da nachinaet razlichat'' kontury dereva, i samoj chereshnej ostaetsya vse men''she shagov, a znachit, t''ma uzhe sovsem blizko.Vpervye na russkom!