Lodolinda este o fetiţă care adoră să deseneze, dar şi lui Federico îi place foarte mult acest lucru. Când Lodolinda desenează un taur furios, gata de atac, iar Federico un tigru pregătit să se năpustească asupra prăzii, începe lupta desenelor nărăvaşe, unde nu există nicio regulă în afară de cea a imaginaţiei şi niciun fel de arme în afară de hârtie şi creioane colorate.
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
Attraverso la magia del disegno Calvino regala l’immagine dell’arte come ponte fantastico su cui incontrare l’altro e scoprirlo più vicino di quanto ci si aspettasse.
Immenso Calvino, tanto nei testi accademici quanto in questo per l'infanzia. Può sembrare solo gioco, ma che cos'è la letteratura se non il gioco più bello del mondo? Un gioco serissimo, vitale.