Les éditions Topipittori

A small publisher of illustrated books, like Topipittori, is a bit like a small coastal boat: it doesn’t carry large loads or travel along major trade routes, but it moves at its own speed, sometimes close to the coast, sometimes where you can only see water all around. It stops in many ports, but only for a short time, just enough to unload something and load something else.

In our ports, we load people, ideas and projects, and unload books. In our own way, we bring together very different and distant regions of the world. The fact that we operate over short distances does not mean that we are content to stroll around our house: our itineraries have led us, in fifteen years of sailing, to navigate domestic and exotic seas, calm and stormy waters, along known and unknown coasts.

Authors and illustrators from Italy, France, Poland, Croatia, Iran, Japan, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Korea, Colombia and Spain have come on board our ship. And our books have landed in many countries: from Thailand to the United States; from Argentina to Sweden; from China to Holland; from Russia to France.

We think of ourselves a bit like the Venetian merchants who left for faraway lands to trade what they had for what they didn’t have, and sometimes didn’t even know existed. They left, they travelled, they came back. Through this back-and-forth, they have made the world smaller and at the same time larger, people closer and friendlier.