Francesca Cavallo is an Italian bestselling author, entrepreneur and activist. She is 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, managing a theater company, and in 2011 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. 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