Francesca Cavallo is an Italian bestselling author, entrepreneur and activist. She is best known as the co-creator of '' Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'' series, which has broken records on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for publishing.

Biography

Cavallo's career began in theater, where she managed a theater company, and in 2011 she turned to the development of Timbuktu Labs with Elena Favilli, which published a children's magazine for

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s, also called Timbuktu. The iPad magazine ''Timbuktu'' (produced by Timbuktu Labs) was the first iPad magazine for children and it presented the news to children as a form of entertainment. The magazine utilized colorful pictures, easy-to-read language, and sound to appeal to children, and top-down scrolling vs. the traditional page flipping style of a magazine. The first volume of ''Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls'' was published in 2016, and has since been translated into 47 languages.

Works

* Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Volume 1 & 2 *I am a Rebel Girl: a Journal to Start Revolutions *Elfi al Quinto Piano

Awards

*PW Star Watch 2018 Superstar

References

Sources

* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Milan alumni Italian women writers Italian businesspeople {{Italy-writer-stub