According to Simone Carpentari-Messina, “the brief does not allow itself to be locked into a genre or a form. It is the question of transgenericity that arises to approach a trilogy of collections of haiku published in this early twenty-first century that resume tales, fables and myths. The postmodernist approach that leads to revisit the great stories of humanity to convert them into small playful forms allows us to observe the literature for young people in its most demanding dimension. It is a question here of accessing the secular texts through one of the most rigorously coded short forms. Ambitious and full of pitfalls, the undertaking deserves attention: indeed, how to initiate to this cultural fund a real young readership - whose cultural competences are necessarily limited - by using poetic forms all the most sibylline that they take the party of a drastic concision?