Festival Tuttestorie of Children's Literature - 20th Edition

The Festival Tuttestorie has been conceived and organised by the Bookshop for Teenagers Tuttestorie, with the contribution in ideas and texts of the writer Bruno Tognolini.

The Honorary President is the writer David Grossman.

The Festival is dedicated, every year, to a different topic, developed by meetings, workshops, shows, narrations, performances, installations and special events, in a mixture of different forms of art and learning.

The 20th edition of the festival will be titled "Inventiario" (a play on words in Italian that combines the number twenty, as in the twenty editions of the festival, with the word "inventory").

The festival will take place in Cagliari and in many other municipalities of Sardinia from 01 to 05 October 2025.

There will be about 380 events scheduled for children and teenagers between 0 and 16-year-old and adults, with over 80 guests (some of them for the first time in Sardinia or Italy) among writers, illustrators, performers, dancers, artists, musicians, actors, scientists, journalists; national and international.

Over 260 events will be dedicated to the classes of the primary and secondary schools, involving thus 600 classes, about 12.000 students and 1.100 teachers.

The last edition registered around 20.000 participants, including students and families, online and in presence mainly.

Tuttestorie is one of the most important festivals in Italy that is entirely dedicated to children’s literature.

The last three editions of the festival have received the EFFE Label.

The festival has been included among the principal eighteen literary manifestations and book fairs (out of 1200 realities) by the First Report on Reading Promotion in Italy (2013) edited by Associazione Forum del Libro, charged by the Department for the Information and Publishing of the Premiership.

It has received the Medal from the President of the Republic, it’s been awarded in 2009 by the Centre for the Book of the Minister of Cultural Heritage as Best Initiative in Reading Promotion for Children and Teenagers and it has won, together with the Municipality of Cagliari, the National Prize “City of Book” 2010.