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Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Ant...

Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valeri...

Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Ant...

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Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

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Full title

Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Author / Creator

Publisher

New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2020.

Uniform title

Favole al telefono. English

Call Numbers

CL/0955

Record Identifier

74VKazq6MVNZ

MMS ID

991024397519802626

Language

English

Italian

(Language of original)

Formats

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.

More information

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.

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

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazq6MVNZ

Other Identifiers

ISBN

1592702848

9781592702848

DDC

[E]

MMS ID

991024397519802626

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