What happens when you bring together a lively little girl and a scatterbrained dad? An invitation to cherish time with your children, free from distractions. Let’s read this hilarious story in LIS, Italian Sign Language, together with Laura and Alessandra from LISten.

WHO IS LISten?

LISten is an idea, a dream, a space where we can go beyond silence and tread lightly on emotions. LISten is an initiative that aims to unite two seemingly distant worlds: the world of the deaf and that of the hearing. Deaf and hearing people doing things together, talking together, learning together, smiling together. Deaf and hearing people not as groups needing mutual support, but as groups that enrich one another. LISten is about feeling through emotions and vibrations. Communicating through Italian Sign Language (LIS) or lip-reading, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that it is always with the mutual respect that characterises the desire to come together.

THE BOOK

What do you do when your parents decide it’s time to go home but you don’t want to go back at all? You need a clever plan! Anna is eager to see the monkeys, but her dad isn’t having any of it. Luckily, he’s so distracted by his smartphone that he doesn’t notice Anna taking another dad’s hand—one who’s just as absent-minded. Passing from one hand to another, Anna visits the whole zoo and has an incredible afternoon…

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