Telephone Tales

By: Gianni Rodari, Valerio Vidali (Illustrator), Antony Shugaar (Translator)

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Hardcover | 8 September 2020

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Hardcover
212 Pages

Age
9+

Grade
3 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
24.7 x 16.9 x 3.1

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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.

About the Author

Gianni Rodari (1920-1980) is widely considered to the most influential Italian children's author of the 20th century. Despite winning the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1970, Rodari has rarely been translated into English.

About the Illustrators

Valerio Vidali is an Italian illustrator of children's books. His book Jemmy Button (Templar/Candlewick, 2013), co-authored with Jennifer Uman, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2013. His book The Forest, co-illustrated with Violeta Lopez was published by Enchanted Lion in 2018.

Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator, working out of Italian and French. He once interviewed the creator of Topo Gigio.

Industry Reviews

"The stories range in tone from the fanciful to the absurd to the philosophical. What they have in common is brevity-Bianchi 'couldn't afford to make extended long-distance phone calls'-and a subversive quality that would seem to reflect the author's communist leanings ... All sorts of imaginative leaps take place in this handsome book" -Wall Street Journal

"There are a lot of stories to love in this Italian export. Rodari is a master storyteller; his imagination knows no bounds from runaway noses, buildings made of ice cream, magical carousels, and an elevator to the stars. Each story is thoughtful and well constructed as Rodari plays delightfully with different themes." -School Library Journal
"Gianni Rodari is considered the most innovative Italian children's writer of the 20th century. His countless stories and rhymes tend to end well, but in the teeth of evidence. Telephone Tales offers 68 of them ably translated by Antony Shugaar with illustrations by Valerio Vidali... For Rodari, the children's story is always an act of generosity which favors a process of initiation and liberation." -The London Review of Books

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