Pumpkin, Bone and Fur. A strange pet

DID YOU EVER MET A MUNGO?

Bone: What is this?
Girl: It’s a mungo.
Fur: Mungo?
Rag: Never heard about it
Girl: It’s very nice and loves to play. You’ll love him!
But please be careful: it never has to eat sweets!
Pumpkin: Ok, we take it!

Pumpkin, Bone and Fur would love to have a pet…there are no animals at home! So they go to the shop, but they really can’t choose the one they prefer… When the lady of the shop suggests them a Mungo, they all find it very interesting… What’s a Mungo? They’ve never heard about it, but it’s so nice and it seems quite easy, there’s just one, very important rule: never feed him sweets. So, yes, what’s the problem? They go for the Mungo and bring it home. After a few days something really stranges happens…now the home is invaded by many Mungos! What’s happened? They are beyond control…Will the friends be able to find a solution and manage all the Mungos?

A new, funny chapter in the most loved monster’s series.

Rights sold: Korean language

Davide Calì (author)

Davide is a cartoonist and children’s author and his books have been published in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States, Canada and then translated in more than 30 countries. He has published more than 170 illustrated books, comics and novels, and received many awards in France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, USA. Several companies in France, Belgium, Italy and Japan have adapted his books for children’s theatre (L’ennemi and Moi J’attends). He collaborates regularly with several French monthly children’s magazines, including “Mes Premiers J’aime lire”, “Toboggan” and “Tralalire”.

Davide Cali was awarded as Best Writer – Italian Andersen Prize 2025.

Stefano Martinuz (illustrator)

Stefano is an illustrator from Brescia born in 1996. Since he nurtured a passion for art and drawing since childhood, he decided to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, specializing in comics and illustration and graduating with honors. Stefano won the comics competition “Rodragon” for debut authors organized by Rovigo Comics in 2015 and was the third-place winner of the competition “Annual 2018 – Italian illustration in Dublin”. He currently collaborates with several publish – ing houses such as Erickson Edizioni, Rizzoli Education, Pearson Italia, Sergio Bonelli Editore, Alice Édition. He loves to juggle jobs as concept artist and character designer for editorial projects, companies and animation studios, to range beyond his comfort zone and explore new approaches useful to consistently enrich his artistic career.