ADVENT CALENDAR 2026

How To | With a colored Booklet inside, from the 1st to the 25th of December, day by day, you discover a new Christmas WORD and search for it within the illustration. Look carefully, explore every detail… Once you’ve found it, attach and reattach the STAR in the right spot. Read together day by day the 25 stories connected with the main WORD in the booklet and listen to them in the podcast. to experience the wait for Christmas.

Advent is Waiting | What are we waiting for? Who are we waiting for? Find out all the characters who inhabit this vast nightly landscape. How many are? Where do they come from? What do they bring? Where are they going? Some arrive from faraway times and places; some are here with us unexpectedly—our very own neighbors, the characters of our beloved stories, like the little match girl. There is joy, celebration, and peace: the lion with the lamb, winter with the roses. What is happening? Has the world been turned upside down? Why are we waiting? Let’s set out on the journey with children, Magi, and animals. Discover all the wondrous signs that accompany that Child born among us.
And in the booklet of 25 words, you will find the way to Bethlehem because… now it’s Christmas once again!

Educational Target & Contents | Where are we going? Are we still waiting for something?
• A Leporello that nurtures WONDER and curiosity, helping to search, recognize, and read the images and characters that make up daily life and the HOLY CHRISTMAS within a majestic night landscape.
• A Leporello for PEACE. Here, contemporary homes merge seamlessly with castles of the past and ancient Middle Eastern houses; city families walk and play alongside lions and lambs, kittens riding on tigers.
• In this vast, mysterious stage set teeming with life, PEACE — embodied in a small Child and signaled by a Light — recomposes conflicts and differences, time and space, not by erasing them but by exalting the symphony they create as they journey together. Symphony they create as they journey together.

Nausicaa Dalla Torre – Illustrator
Illustrator with over 10 years of experience in the publishing and visual communication field. Graduating in Graphic Design and Communication at NABA in Milan, she has collaborated with newspapers, publishing houses, and creative studios, including GEDI, Studio Bozzetto, The Good Life, Regione Lombardia, and Movimenti Production. Her work ranges from editorial illustration to animation, with an approach that combines visual research and storytelling. Her illustrations have been internationally awarded, including the Silver Medal in the Advertising category at Autori di Immagini 2024 and selection in the shortlist of the World Illustration Awards 2024.

Annalena Valenti – Author
Mother of six children and journalist. She is the author of books, a columnist, and the co-author of the books Waiting for Christmas, Waiting for Christmas 2, and Waiting for Easter – The extraordinary duel between life and death. As a project manager, she has created and curated exhibitions, written guides and books for children, and organized storytelling in libraries, schools, and educational centers. As a reading ambassador, she organizes training courses and lectures in Italy and abroad. With the MammaOca® team, she has created the blog mammaoca.com with podcasts featuring fairy tales and stories about Christmas and Easter.

Raffaella Carnovale – Author

Holding a degree in architecture with a specific passion for modern and contemporary, she is a mother of seven and follows the world of children’s book illustration with immense interest. She works on graphic design projects and exhibition setups, taking care of editorial projects, co-authoring books, and joining the team of the blog mammaoca.com and the podcasts produced, whose motto is “Everything is done for children”.