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Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali (The Forest), Telephone Tales entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.
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Telephone Tales, Gianni Rodari
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Telephone Tales
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gianni Rodari
- Publisher
- Enchanted Lion Books
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 140
- ISBN10
- 1592702848
- ISBN13
- 9781592702848
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Children's Books, Fantasy, Classics, Short Stories, Fairy Tales & Stories, Southern Europe, Italy, Italian Literature, Children's Fantasy, Modern Fairy Tales, Italian Fairy Tales
- First published
- 1978
- Original title
- Favole al telefono
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator must be some sort of magician, the next, it's a land filled with butter men who melt in the sunshine Awarded the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Gianni Rodari is widely considered to be Italy's most important children's author of the 20th century. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali (The Forest), Telephone Tales entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.