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Anusha Bhama Gukhool
Solomon J. nel villaggio dei Pepileni
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Start here, an orientation guide to Solomon J. nel villaggio dei Pepileni

If you have just arrived, this page walks with you: what Solomon J. is, why it was written, who it speaks to and in which order the site is best read.

What Solomon J. nel villaggio dei Pepileni is

It is a fairy tale by Anusha Bhama Gukhool, and at the same time an educational project. It follows the journey of a child who sets out to find his father and discovers along the way an inner geography made of places, figures and symbols: a language for naming what childhood feels long before it can say it.

Why it was written

Out of daily encounters with intense, curious, highly able children, and with the adults who walk beside them, often alone. A story was needed that could welcome such intensity and give it a home: hence the village, the place that recognises and takes in.

Who it speaks to

  • Parents looking for words to explain to their little ones the absence of a parent, even when that absence grows out of an addiction: the tale offers an explanation in the language of children and accompanies them, inside a fairy-tale world, towards understanding human fragility.
  • Parents of sensitive, gifted or highly emotional children.
  • Teachers, educators, librarians and booksellers.
  • Child psychologists and everyone who uses the fairy tale as a clinical and educational tool.

The suggested path

Five steps through the site

  1. Discover the book

    The plot, the narrative structure and the double register through which the fairy tale speaks at once to the child and to the adult reading beside them.

    Go to the book

  2. See who it is for

    Parents looking for words to explain a parent's absence, even when that absence grows out of an addiction, alongside teachers, educators and child psychologists: here is the map of the readers this tale addresses.

    A look at giftedness

  3. Enter the symbolic world

    The Takaró, Pepilandia, the city of dead dogs: the places and the figures that give shape to what children feel long before they find words for it.

    Meet the characters

  4. Meet the author

    Anusha Bhama Gukhool, teacher and writer, tells in her own voice where the project comes from and which educational gaze sustains it.

    Discover the author

  5. Go deeper, or work together

    Critical research with a bibliography for those who study, and the Collaborate page for schools, libraries, bookshops and childhood professionals.

    Collaborate

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