{:en}PRESS RELEASE (11/28/2017)
Wednesday, November 29 at Civic Library a Loano initiative will be held “Invitation to reading”, sponsored by the’School Department and the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano in collaboration with the’Comprehensive Institute Loano-Boissano and the library Mondadori Book Store Loano.
As of the 9:30 a.m. about 100 pupils of the fifth classes of the Valerga Plexuses Primary School e Milanese Will have the opportunity to meet the writer Maria Daniela Raineri better known by the pseudonym Mavis Miller.
The author, interviewed by journalist Graziella Frasca Gallo, will present his latest novel for children entitled “Lisbeth and the Flower Garden” (De Agostini, 2017).
The protagonist of the story is Lisbeth, a girl who, unlike all the Lucenti, that is, the inhabitants of the City of Gold, does not have golden threads in her hair and does not know how to fly. Because of this, she is forced to leave, leaving her best friend André, with whom she is secretly in love, to go to school in the Wildlands, with some obnoxious classmates and an insufferable principal. She will have to get used to this different world, to people forcibly forcing her to do what she does not want, but, on the other hand, she will meet a great teacher: gym teacher Shila Connemara. What's more, a mysterious character will turn the story upside down....
The book will provide an opportunity for reflection with children on the themes of the’identity, of the’self-acceptance, of the difference as a value, of the’integration.
“Loano city reading - say the vice mayor Luca Lettieri and Councillor Remo Zaccaria - initiates a new project that aims to bring children and young people closer to reading through collaboration with Loano schools. The recognition in the cultural sphere that this year was awarded to our city by the Center for Books and Reading (Cepell) has been a further stimulus to strive to create a “Local Pact for Reading,” which increasingly ensures access to books by all citizens with a view to social growth. This is where the new initiative aimed at younger citizens fits in.”
Maria Daniela Raineri, a writer and screenwriter, chose the pseudonym of Mavis Miller to recount the adventures of the City of Gold and the Wildlands.
Under his real name he has published four novels, translated in Spain, Portugal and Germany. One of them, Good thing you are there, in 2009 became a film.
He has been teaching film writing courses for students of all ages for many years.
He made his debut in children's fiction with Lisbeth and the secret of the city of gold published in 2016 by De Agostini.{:}
