(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 25 - Faced with harsh images, continuous news of attacks, the suffering of those who have left their homeland, it is not easy to find the right words to tell the little ones what is happening around us.
Doing so starting from tales, metaphors and images is undoubtedly a way to explain the reality of war and to welcome the doubts and questions of the little ones.
On the occasion of the presentation of the book Dalil, Thursday 26 May at 18:00 at the BIBLIOBAR of Lungotevere Castello, this theme will also be addressed: "How to tell the war to children".
Dalil, written by Francesca Bellino with illustrations by Gianluca Buttolo and published by Barometz, pays homage to the history, sacredness and humanity of a tormented land.
Paolo Ciani, the national secretariat Demos, the intercultural mediator Parisa Nazari, and the psychologist Daniela Bertozzi intervene with the author.
Introduces and coordinates the journalist Luciana Borsatti.
Dalil is a book for all ages, in which everyone can find themselves in the dunes or in flight, between the mirages and the hope that accompanies them.
The protagonists are a lost child and only in the desert and an ibis, the last survivor of his kind, left to guard the boundless expanse of sand and its abandoned enemies.
The ibis, once considered sacred, was depicted by the Egyptians in the head of Thoth, god of wisdom, mathematics, the measurement of time, medicine and magic.
He was the symbol of the moon, lord of divine words, the inventor of writing.
A travel story and the story of an unusual friendship become an opportunity to look up at one's bewilderment and fate, transforming them into courage and trust.
The backdrop to this adventure is the Palmyra desert, in present-day Syria, with its boundless horizons and its colors, with its ghosts and the wounds that the war has inflicted on places and people.
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