A Star at the Bottom of the Sea

by Gayle Ridinger, Andreina Parpajola (Illustrator)

With help from her undersea friends, a starfish travels to the sky where she wants to shine and dance like the other stars, but she quickly discovers that things are not always as they appear.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

Gayle Ridinger was born in the United States and graduated in English from Oberlin College. She worked as a newspaper reporter in northern Ohio before moving to Milan, Italy in 1981. She presently teaches English and translation techniques at an Italian university. She translated and co-edited the bilingual anthology, ITALIAN POETRY 1950-1990 (Branden/Dante University Press, Boston, 1996), and her translation of SHAVINGS, prose poems by Camillo Sbarbaro, was published by Chelsea Editions, New York, in 2006. She received the “National Translation Prize” from the Italian Ministry of Culture in 1997, and was named Knight of the Star Order of Italian Solidarity by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 2003.
Her children’s book, A STAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, has been published in five languages, including in the U.S. by Gareth Stevens. Her novel, THE SHADOW WIFE, the story of a strong-willed woman who substitutes her weak-willed twin sister struggling to get her life back on track, is available on Amazon.
Her latest book, THE SECRET PRICE OF HISTORY, was co-authored with her husband Paolo Pochettino, a native of Milan, Italy, who for years worked as an industrial manager in numerous countries. A long-time distance runner (with 8 marathons to his credit) as well as Himalayan mountain hiker and extensive world traveller, he has survived a plane hijacking and revolts in Sudan and Yemen.