While he is traveling across Italy, he calls her at 9 p.m. Newly re-illustrated by Italian artist Valerio Vidali (The Forest), Telephone Tales entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds. Bianchi promises his daughter that he will tell her a bedtime story every night.

In order to read full 'Telephone Tales' ebook, you need to create a FREE account and get unlimited access, enjoy the book anytime and anywhere. Or, it's a land filled with butter men, roads paved with chocolate, or a young shrimp who has the courage to do things in a different way from what he's supposed to do.Īwarded 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. Read Online or Download 'Telephone Tales' ebook in PDF, Epub, Tuebl and Mobi. One night, it's a carousel so beloved by children that an old man finally sneaks on to understand why, and as he sails above the world, he does. Each story is set in a different place and a different time, with unconventional characters and a wonderful mix of reality and fantasy. 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. Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is composed of many stories-in fact, seventy short stories, with one for each phone call. But since it's still the 20th century world of pay phones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story.

Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr.

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