Sarah Mazzetti
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Lucilla, SM, Madrid, 2020
Technique: mixed technique of handmade illustrations, collage and digital collage
Sarah Mazzetti
Winner of the International Award for Illustration Bologna Children’s Book Fair-Fundación SM 2019
Credits
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Everyone was talking about the arrival of poverty in the city.
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People speculated about what poverty is like. Each imagined poverty in their own way.
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Poverty is like the fog.
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Poverty has pierced entire cities.
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Poverty arrived and ravaged the city and the countryside. It left the land barren.
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The animals were famished, the people sold their goods.
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Poverty brought out the worst in people. Lucilla's parents took a desperate decision.
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Lucilla's father took her to the forest. She left breadcrumbs on the way so she could go home.
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Lucilla found out that her father had abandoned her. She looked for the breadcrumbs but they had disappeared. The beings of the forest spoke to her.
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The forest beings asked Lucilla to stay with them and invited her to a party.
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The bats danced for Lucilla.