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Last year I lived on an island for a while. This winter, a deep melancholy set in: I missed the sea and the sky. I have left home more than once, but the places and people we have loved continue to live inside us.
A young woman feels that her island is starting to feel too small for her. She leaves for the city, amidst new streets and lights, but nostalgia grows in her heart. On the beach, she finds a thread: pulling it, she brings her island and her loved ones closer, discovering that our roots always remain a part of us.
I decided to enter this contest because I felt that this story was screaming inside me to be told — without words, without rules, without expectations.
Lucia Carlini is a children’s book author and illustrator born in Rome. After studying Illustration and Animation at the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design), she furthered her training in printmaking techniques at the Fondazione Il Bisonte. She made her debut with “L’importanza delle cose” (2022) and published “I serpenti non fanno rumore” (2024) with Kite Edizioni. She works as a freelance illustrator for Corriere della Sera and various publishing houses.