The right stories: Emanuela Loi is Camilla, the star that brings light where nobody wants to watch

How can a librarian flea have the best on a frightening tiger? And a poet’s bee Regina get rid of the jar that imprisoned it? And again: can a tiny and lonely star illuminate the darkness of the sea? These are questions that seem to come from a dream, or from a nursery rhyme. And instead they are the living soul of Right tales – invented stories of true legality, real justice and profound courage (DeAgostini), The last book of In the trocchiajournalist who has always been on the front line against mafias, abuse and injustices. A book designed for children, but who also speaks to adults. Indeed, (perhaps) especially to them. Because who reads these modern fairy tales soon recognizes that behind each character, however fantastic, a real person is hidden. Someone who fought, resisted, left a mark. As Emanuela Loithe first woman of the escort of the judge Paolo Borsellino, killed at 24 years of age July 19, 1992 in the massacre of via D’Amelio. He was 24 years old. He was 24 years old and had arrived in Palermo from Sardinia, after forming as a policeman in Trieste. He did not like Palermo and wanted to go home, in his beloved Sestu, where his parents, sister Claudia and brother Marcello were waiting for her. He called them almost every day from the barracks of the barracks, a token, a call.

In the book, Emanuela becomes Camillaa small star who decides to go to the bottom of the sea to bring light where nobody wants to look. A silent and courageous gesture, which puts it in danger, but which gives hope to those who, in the dark, see nothing anymore. Camilla does not fight with weapons, has no special powers. It only has the unwavering will not to let yourself be turned off. Through its history, Trocchia returns to the figure of Emanuela Loi all its greatness: not only as a victim of the mafia, but as an example of a conscious choice. A girl who has decided to put herself at the service of the state and justice, while knowing the risks. A luminous presence, today more than ever necessary. In the massacre of via D’Amelio, together with Emanuela Loi, the judge Borsellino and the agents Agostino Catalano, Eddie Walter Max Cosina, Claudio Traina and Vincenzo Fabio Li Muli died.

Transform memory into storytelling, The news in poetry. Behind every story, that of the flea, the bee, the star, there is a profound call to responsibility, courage, truth. Right tales Thus becomes a small moral compass, a tool to educate, to discuss, to choose. In a time when children often ask to grow quickly, Right tales It reminds us how essential it is to offer them right words (in fact), strong words and reading at the same time. Words that do not hide the complexity of the world, but make it understandable.

So stories like that of Camilla, a small but unshakable star, become “conscientious seeds”. And the figures who live in these pages, from Don Pino Pino Puglisi to Letizia Battaglia, from Felicia Impastato to Gino Strada, become possible references, ethical compass for the little ones and for those who accompany them in growth. As the same writes in the Trocchia, addressing children, but at the bottom of all of us: «They will tell you that nothing changes so much, but you don’t listen to them. It is the song of the losers. Because you lose when you turn to the other side ». One page after another Right tales It is an invitation not to turn your gaze. To remember that every gesture can make a difference. Day by day, a right word at a time.

The author will present the book on 10 June at 6 pm at the Feltrinelli bookshop off Torre Argentina in Rome. In dialogue with Corrado Formigli.