
Lift the flaps and save the reputation of notorious animals!
-Once upon a time there was a very ferocious bad wolf…
-Hey! Wait a minute, wait a minute….
And so begins this book… Two girls chatting and challenging the myth of the Bad Wolf, put off by folklore and fairy tales.
There are many animals that have a bad name. And the purpose of Bel Olid is to clear their names with facts and figures.
Throughout the conversation, the reader will be able to lift the flaps and find out the truth behind wolves, sharks, spiders, horses and crocodiles.
Accompanied by the amazing illustrations of Naida Mazzenga, children realize to which extent the image we have of them is misleading and why they are so important to us and to their habitats.
Don’t be afraid of lifting the flaps. They are not as bad as they say!
Bad Name
by Bel Olid. Illustrated by Naida Mazzenga
21 × 24 cm | 38 pages | Hardcover with flaps | Ages 4+
Publication: September 2023
BEL OLID Winner of the Roc Boronat Short Story Prize, Documenta Novel Prize and QWERTY awards, they are one of the most important voices of the Catalan generation of the seventies. Writer, translator, and professor of translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, they are a regular contributor in various cultural media outlets. Former president of the Conseil Européen des Associations de Traducteurs Littéraires (CEATL) and, since 2015, president of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.
NAIDA MAZZENGA Multi awarded illustrator. Selected illustrator for exhibition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair, winner of the third prize in the 2021 CICLA Original Illustration Exhibition. Finalist illustrator for the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition by CCBF in 2020 and 2021, selected by Ibby Italia for the Honor List 2021