08/05/2026
Meeting Davide Morosinotto at Crossing Border Kids this morning was so interesting and exciting. Davide spoke to us about his writing and research process, how he found old maps of New York city and real characters that inspired the story in his book "The legendary treasure of HellGate" based on the historic shipreck of the HMS Hussar. The book follows a bunch of kids as they look for treasure following a key and a drawing that they find on a matchbox. Afterwards Davide led a story-making workshop with the participants where children ended up with a science-fiction scenario: "A year without grown-ups", where suddenly all the adults disappear, children have to organize themselves, the adults are in another dimension, reflecting into all the implications such a situation would have, investigating, possible solutions....
Thanks to everyone who joined us, to Davide, to Patty who beautifully translated, to the publisher Pelckmans, to Crossing Border and to the Istituto Italiano da cultura who made it possible. .be .nose