Francesca Cavallo

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.

Francesca Cavallo
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	BA in Liberal Studies in Communication (cum laude) University of Milan, MFA in Stage directing from Academy of Dramatic Art ‘Paolo Grassi’
Occupation(s)	Writer, entrepreneur, activist
Notable work	Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, Elfi al quinto piano
Awards	PW Star Watch 2018
Website	https://www.francescatherebel.com

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 iPads, 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.

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

• PW Star Watch 2018 Superstar