Gianni the Barn Owl

Alice Rohrwacher & Mara Cerri

Two sisters find three warm eggs when their father demolishes the oven in the garden. They place the eggs under a light bulb, but only one of them hatches. Thus begins an unforgettable summer for the two little girls. The chick is fed with worms and grows more and more every day. They realize that he is a beautiful barn owl and call him Gianni Barba. White, large and mysterious, it goes hunting every night and then returns at dawn. Until one day something happens that the little girls will never forget.

This title is part of TERREMOTI, the new series from Orecchio acerbo. Sudden accelerations, sudden changes in gaze, discoveries, transformations, traumas. In other words: childhood, a land of small and large “earthquakes”.

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