What happens when a hen lays a black egg? No one will buy it, so the farmer brings it to the king. And what if a difficult chick hatches from it? The king and queen adopt him. And if he remains difficult—stays exactly as he is?
The Black Egg (2020) — text by Sante Bandirali, illustrations by Alicia Baladan — draws inspiration from Luigi Capuana's fairy tale (the Crema publisher takes its name from him). Uovonero published this picture book to celebrate ten years in business with readers. It's a book that flows in a thousand bright, colorful directions, all pointing toward one thing: a hymn to truly seeing difference. The kind of difference that frightens us at first and gets rejected. The kind we can't fix or straighten out because it simply remains what it is. The kind that, when listened to and respected, can build something great. Like a beloved king who keeps his promise to the proud hen.
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