A small illustrated book publishing house, like Topipittori, is a bit like a small coastal boat: it does not carry large cargoes or travel along major trade routes, but it moves at its own speed, sometimes close to the coast, sometimes where there is nothing but water all around. It stops at many ports, but only for a short time, just long enough to unload something and load something else.

In our ports, we load people, ideas and projects; and unload books. In our way, we bring together very different and distant regions of the world. Proceeding over short distances does not mean that we simply stroll around our home: our itineraries have taken us, in fifteen years of navigation, to navigate domestic and exotic seas, calm and stormy waters, along known and unknown coasts.

Italian, French, Polish, Croatian, Iranian, Japanese, Swiss, Bulgarian, Korean, Colombian and Spanish authors and illustrators have embarked on 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 see ourselves a bit like the Venetian merchants, who left for distant lands to exchange what they had for what they did not have and, sometimes, did not even know existed. They left, travelled, came back. Through this coming and going, they made the world smaller and at the same time larger, people closer and friendlier.