Night after night, a father spins a new, wildly fantastical tale from the other end of the telephone. Reminiscent of Scheherazade and "One Thousand and One Nights, " Rodari’s "Telephone Tales" is many stories within a story. Full color. <\/p>\n
Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, <\/em> Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales<\/em> is composed of many stories–in fact, seventy short stories, with one for each phone call. Each story is set in a different place and a different time, with unconventional characters and a wonderful mix of reality and fantasy. 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. 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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<\/em> entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Winner of the 2021 Batchelder Award and the 2020 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s English Translation Prize<\/p>\n \u2022 Author: Gianni Rodari \u2022 ISBN:9781592702848 \u2022 Format:Hardcover \u2022 Publication Date:2020-09-08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Night after night, a father spins a new, wildly fantastical tale from the other end of the telephone. Reminiscent of Scheherazade and "One Thousand and One Nights, " Rodari’s "Telephone Tales" is many stories within a story. Full color. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to […]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":890367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[283920],"product_tag":[283921],"class_list":{"0":"post-890278","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-funny-kids-books","7":"product_tag-telephone-tales","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/890278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=890278"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautysuppliers.org\/wmhot-top\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=890278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}