The book
Solomon J. nel villaggio dei Pepileni
A fairy tale for the children of the past, the present and the future. A symbolic story about childhood, solitude and the village where sensitivity is finally at home. Published in Italian, print edition.
ISBN 9798289918543 · Amazon KDP · 2025
Description
A book for children, and for the adults who walk beside them
Solomon J. is a child who feels a great deal and asks the questions adults tend to postpone. His journey through Pepilandia is a map: each place, each creature, each object stands for something a child lives and rarely has words for.
The Takarò, the cloak of stars, is the heart of the story. It is given, it is lost, and it comes back changed. When the Pepileno Cucù returns it to Solomon J. and says «You will have to take care of your Takarò», the symbol completes its transformation.
Read aloud, the book works as a fairy tale. Read by an adult, it works as a way to talk about intensity, absence and dependency with honesty.
Themes
Children who cry, love, rage and wonder more than expected. The tale treats intensity as information, not as a symptom.
Boredom, precocious questions, the feeling of being out of step at school. The village is where those traits finally make sense.
A father who is far away, a family made of one parent, a question a child keeps asking. Symbols make the unspeakable sayable.
The giant and the glacier of the Alcolà tell children what an adult held by a dependency looks like, without judgement and without lies.
Who it is for
- Parents of intense, sensitive or gifted children
- Teachers and school staff looking for a shared language
- Psychologists and educators working with childhood
- Adult readers who were that child
Versione italiana di questa pagina: il libro.