Crossover Series

Storia di Milo, il gatto che salvò Plutone

(The Story of Milo, the Cat who saved Pluto)

Ugo Guanda Editore, October 2023, pp.124

Following his first two adventures, Milo, the disabled kitten who can’t jump, returns with a new adventure promoting encounter and diversity, this time on Pluto, as an interplanetary ambassador.

On Pluto, a probe has detected a population of small, furry, sentient animals. Everyone agrees that a human would scare them and compromise any relationship between the two species for ever. They need an intermediary, an expert in communication and an example of brotherhood. So NASA thinks of Milo, the brave and sympathetic disabled cat, for the first space mission in which an animal will not be a guinea pig but rather a valuable partner. During the long voyage to the stars, studded with extraordinary encounters with space residents, Mila stops off in Animal Heaven, where he meets some old friends who are no longer with us. In the end, he returns home feeling richer and less different than ever.

Ugo Guanda Editore, October 2023, pp.124

  • “An international success (…) a trilogy that’s an ode to diversity, but from a viewpoint of curiosity rather than compassion.”

    Anna Momigliano, Uppa Magazine

  • “Great fun and, like all well-written stories, also very educational. Created for young readers but equally useful for helping parents break down clichés.”

    Valeria Parrella, Grazia

  • “Milo’s story goes from being a children’s tale to a guidebook for adults: it teaches the former that difference doesn’t exist and that there are no limitations that can’t be overcome through commitment and constancy (and a few friends); the latter, it teaches that the time has perhaps come to look beyond clichés.”

     

    Il Sole 24 Ore

  • “another exquisite adventure of the black feline who knows about brotherhood.”

    Oggi

  • “a wise story that provides food for thought to readers of any age.” 

    Franca Giansoldati, Il Messaggero

Rights Sold

Option publishers: Hanulim Kids (South Korea); Reading Italy Part (Thailand).

Costanza Rizzacasa D'Orsogna

Costanza Rizzacasa D’Orsogna, a journalist and essayist, graduated in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York. She writes for the Corriere della Sera. With Guanda, she published her first novel Non superare le dosi consigliate (Do not Exceed Recommended Intake) in 2020. Guanda has published Storia di Milo, il gatto che non sapeva saltare (Milo’s Story: The Cat Who Couldn’t Jump, 2018), her first book starring the disabled little cat, whose foreign rights have been sold to Thailand (Reading Italy Part.) and South Korea (Hanulim Kids Co.) and Storia di Milo, il gatto che andò al Polo Sud (The Story of Milo, the Cat Who Went to the South Pole, 2021). She lives in Rome with her Milo.

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