"In such sort as best suited with her very tender age." Introduction to the Issue about Fashion and Childhood

Authors

• Roberto Farné Università di Bologna
  Full professor in the Department of Life Quality Studies, University of Bologna, where he teaches Pedagogy of Play. His researches, documented by several publications and his teaching activities mainly concern the Pedagogy of play and sport, the Educational iconography and the Media education. He has worked for research projects with public and private institutions including RAI (Italian broadcasting of television), Walt Disney Italia, and the Emilia-Romagna region. From 2007 to 2012 prof. Farné has been Director of the Department of Sciences of Education "Giovanni Maria Bertin" (University of Bologna).
• Marcella Terrusi Università di Bologna
  PhD in Education, she is grant researcher at the Quality Life Studies Department of the University of Bologna. She Taught courses of  Children’s Literature (University of Bolzano) and History of Picturebook at (ISIA- Superior Institute for Art and Design, Urbino). Author of: Albi illustrati. Leggere, guardare, nominare il mondo nei libri per l’infanzia (Carocci, 2012) and Meraviglie mute. Silent book e letteratura per l’infanzia  (Carocci 2017; national award for best publication about education, CIRSE 2018) Among other projects she curates together with Giannino Stoppani Cooperativa Culturale The Extraordinary library exhibition (at its third edition in 2019), 100 books selected by Bologna Children’s Books Fair for Pitti Immagine Bimbo.