Dagli USA al Sud Africa

Ho pubblicato anche negli Stati Uniti.
Il titolo della storia riporta il nome del protagonista: «Vanuk Vanuk».
L’editore è DOUBLEDAY (Doubleday Company Inc., Garden City, New York), nome storico e fra i più significativi.

Questa è una fra le tante varie recensioni. È apparsa su «JOURNAL» a firma del giornalista Gene Shalit:
The author is clearly a mad Milanese who knows how to spin a story that’s lonely with laughs.
First he creates a mythical tip: this will make an unusual gift for that special adult friend who’s devoted to olives, caviar, the Marx Brothers, W:C: Fields and Leonardo da Vinci.

Ma «Vanuk Vanuk» ha fatto molta strada. Dagli Stati Uniti ha attraversato gli Oceani e il tempo, ha raggiunto più nazioni e generazioni. Come prova questa testimonianza da me casualmente rinvenuta in un sito sudafricano che propone libri online:

Little Hands
@ BOOK Southern Africa
Arthur’s picture books:
Just the other day my dad found a battered old favourite called Vanuk Vanuk, a bizarre children’s book by Guido Sperandio that my Dad bought for my Mother on the day I was born. The illustrations are full of little details to discover, and as a child I love nothing more than to do looking for them. No other book has stayed with me quite as firmly over the years

Grazie Arthur, e complimenti a tuo padre per l’ottima scelta.
Parola dell’autore della storia.