sandro’s books for new world

Somewhere nearby, a beetle is pacing in circles — and he has every reason to: he has a problem, and he cannot solve it alone. House Without a Roof is a story that cannot end without you. The narrator asks for help, and the reader becomes part of the rescue. A small pebble waits in the box. Read the book, and it will never again be just a pebble.

Not every mosquito wants to fly. This one longs for the unpredictable — and, like every creature growing older, he is eager to tell the story of his life. All it takes is the courage to start a conversation. Great Traveler is a story about adventure as a way of understanding the true nature of things. Like every book in this series, it arrives in a box with a small object inside — this time, a tiny twig.

What looks trivial to one may mean the world to another. For the grasshopper, a tablecloth is not a scrap of fabric — it is the chance to invite friends over for tea. Meaning is born of purpose. The little tablecloth that comes with this book is waiting for a purpose of its own.

The life of this strange character might seem ordinary — but what matters is how he sees it. Cloudy Room is a story about change, about connection, about memory and the quiet feelings it leaves behind. Told with an almost childlike simplicity, it leads the reader toward the big questions: what is the world around us, and what is our part in making it meaningful?

Never make a promise you cannot keep. The hero of this story makes the hardest promise of all — and love gives him the imagination to keep it. What does a star look like once it is plucked from the sky and brought down to earth? And how does the sky look without it? Astronomers cannot tell. Anyone in love sees it at once.

A girl lived in a town. A boy lived there too. One day they met — and from then on they were together: at the café table, on the stage and at the easel, even in their dreams. An Unbelievable Story is a love story told in the simplest words, like a fairy tale whispered before sleep. Its secret is in the opening line: our life is full of wonderful moments — it is enough to open our eyes.

In one city, a girl played the piano. In another, a man wrote books. They had never met, never even spoken on the phone — and yet whenever she began to play, he began to write, and whenever he picked up his pen, her fingers found the keys. One Story for Two is about an invisible thread between two people, and about the day the distance between their cities turned out to be not so great after all.

Before you could hold it in your hands, this book was only a dream. Tamara kept her dream in a beautiful box — and the moment the box was opened, the dream began to come true. Tamara’s Book is living proof that dreams can find their way into the world.

A paleontologist discovers that humans are not the only ones who keep a record of their history. Insects pass their knowledge down from generation to generation — and once he deciphers their strange script, their chronicle begins to look uncannily like our own. The Great Book of Insects retells the story of civilization through simple, but never primitive, examples, and finds the driving force of all life in one longing: to connect with one another.

An angel’s day begins very early: his cloud is closer to the sun than our houses are. He washes with rainwater — because clouds are made half of rain and half of the gloomy sighs of humans. Then he listens to those sighs and writes down the names of everyone who needs help. His work almost always goes unnoticed. A gentle reminder that somewhere, someone is listening.

Angels live in the clouds, in houses with wings that fly wherever their owners go. We cannot see them from below — the clouds are in the way. Every Saturday the angels gather at heaven's gate, where fantastic creatures come to remember events of long ago. And then the angels come down to earth. Perhaps that is why, around Christmas, so many of us feel that someone kind is very close.

In his grandfather's attic, the narrator finds a pair of great blue binoculars. Through one end, things grow enormous; through the other, the whole world shrinks away. Raise them a little higher and you can see through walls — straight into the theatre, where She is rehearsing. Strange Binoculars is about a gift rarer than sharp eyesight: the ability to see people as they really are.

Insects never write letters. They have no dreams and no blue eyes. They are born tiny, and however much they grow, they stay small — the smallest pieces of our universe. In this cycle of short poems, a hermit entomologist lists, line by line, everything that separates insects from us, with scientific precision and quiet tenderness. And at the very end he admits what he has known all along: there is a little of the insect in each of us.

Berliners, Londoners, Florentines — one word for millions of entirely different lives. This book gathers seven people without names and without cities, each defined by a single object: a woman's red shoe kept in a birdcage, binoculars that taught a man to read the clouds, a butterfly painted red, a red fork, a tiny box that holds a kiss, a red coffee cup and a whistle. Seven brief portraits taken out of context — and all the truer for it.

Based on real events. A thriller. Sandro is an artist: sensitive by nature, he thinks a great deal about women. The microbe is a simple microbe: it multiplies by division and thinks about nothing at all. One day Sandro cuts his finger, and their two worlds collide. With a doctor, a microscope and a tense stare-down between man and microbe, this miniature thriller reaches its inevitable ending: the microbe is gone, and Sandro remains simply Sandro.

Based on real events. A detective story. Sandro loves coffee, and he has a favourite cup. One day the cup vanishes. Sandro begins to reason: whoever took it must have worn pointed shoes; whoever wears pointed shoes prefers a yellow jacket; whoever prefers a yellow jacket surely has a goatee… A tiny mystery about the pleasure of deduction — and the strange places a favourite cup can end up.

For years the old telescope gazed at the same familiar things. Then one day, by accident, his point of view shifted — and a new wave of curiosity swept the old and the familiar away. A story about how a single turn of the lens can make the whole world new again.

A museum keeps more than objects. It keeps their past and their memories of that past — and that is how its inhabitants stay alive.

Cracked Heart follows the whole life of a heart-shaped jewellery box that grows more precious to the reader with every passing year. It breaks and loses some of its outward beauty — but once it is mended, it gains another kind of beauty, one that only time and care can give.

Have you ever heard of piglets so clean that they are as white as clouds? Flying piglets are hard to imagine, yet the little piglet’s struggle is familiar to anyone who has ever tried to learn something new. This is a story about finding your own voice and direction when you are not like the others. The little piglet learns to fly not the way everyone else does, but by noticing what is unusual.

Every book holds words, pictures or both. The book little Ellen receives as a gift holds neither — but it can record. Like so many of Sandro’s stories, Strange Book unfolds in a place where dreams and reality merge as naturally as day and night. Telling unlikely events in a perfectly matter-of-fact voice, it speaks quietly about overcoming fear, understanding our own experiences and growing up without losing the child within.

Children can be less naive than adults, and insects more playful. When Tamta’s parents invite friends over, Tamta decides to take their picture. But inside her old camera lives a tiny friend who loves to play tricks and leaves his mark on every photo. The grown-ups are annoyed; Tamta adores him for it. Old Camera looks at the adult world through a child’s lens — and fills it with play and light.

In a dark corner of the kitchen lives a cockroach who writes poetry and is hopelessly in love. In cockroach society deep feelings are not done — poems made of food crumbs are usually eaten, not read. Yet every night he sets out toward Her: Sofya Andreevna, vast and warm, who lays out her cards and wonders about her mysterious admirer. A darkly funny love story told in collage — about loving something far too big for you.

Cupids are mischievous, and this one is nervous — it is his very first time with real arrows. He aims at a boy with glasses and a girl on a park bench, but the first arrow flies into a tree and the second into her book. When the third strikes both hearts at once, they fall in love — yet stay faithful to their first loves: he becomes a biologist, she a librarian. A tender, ironic tale about love that always finds its target, even when the aim is off.

Three photographs mark three moments in one life. A four-year-old releases balloons into the sky. A schoolboy writes a composition about angels — and gets the grammar wrong. An adult man meets a stranger with wings who seems to know him. Three Photograph is a story about what a childhood dream looks like when it finally arrives.

Once small, I played at being grown-up with objects I did not understand. Now grown, my house is full of useless objects — and I am still playing. Visual Poetry is a book of collage poems where words, cut-out letters, photographs and drawings share the page. A man looks just like a teapot; museum portraits remember the funny faces of their visitors. In the epilogue the poet confesses: we have lived with things so long that we have turned into them.

A philosophical essay addressed to young demiurges — those who build worlds on keyboards. The book traces ancient archetypes into the digital age: incantations become code, angels become chatbots, temples become servers. The creator's task has always been the same, and it always begins in the same place: turning chaos into cosmos.

A bilingual portrait gallery in which each spread presents one character with a short caption — the Heartless Politician who plays with others' feelings, the Lonely Romantic who falls in love with everyone at once, and many more. is as it is makes no judgement and offers no cure. It simply looks, names what it sees, and moves on.

Twenty-three illustrated readings for the Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree — one story for each day from Creation through the prophets to the eve of Christmas. Each reading retells a moment from the Bible in plain language and pairs it with an illustration, tracing the long thread of promise that ends in a manger.