Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Ant...
Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2020.
Uniform title
Call Numbers
CL/0955
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Language
English
Italian
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Physical Description
Physical content
202 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The unlucky hunter -- The ice cream palace -- A distractible child goes for a walk -- A building for breaking -- The little old lady who counted sneezes -- The country without sharp edges -- The country with an un in front -- The butter man -- Alice Tumbledown -- The road of chocolate -- Inventing n...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often travels for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. Set in the 20th century era of pay phones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's the story of a carousel so beloved by children that an old man finally sn...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Originally published in Italian: Turin, Italy : Einaudi, 1962 under the title, Favole al telefono.
Language note
Translated from Italian.
Contextual Information
Awards
"Winner of the 2021 Mildred A. Batchelder Award"
Hans Christian Anderson Award, 1970
Date Copyright
©2020
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
CL/0955
Record Identifier
74VKazq6MVNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazq6MVNZ
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ISBN
1592702848
9781592702848
DDC
[E]
MMS ID
991024397519802626