{"product_id":"telephone-tales-hardcover","title":"Telephone Tales - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGianni Rodari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eValerio Vidali\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eAntony Shugaar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNight after night, a father spins a new, fantastical bedtime story for his daughter from the other end of the telephone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReminiscent of Scheherazade and \u003ci\u003eOne Thousand and One Nights, \u003c\/i\u003e Gianni Rodari's \u003ci\u003eTelephone Tales\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwarded 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 \u003ci\u003e(The Forest), Telephone Tales\u003c\/i\u003e entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2021 Batchelder Award and the 2020 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs's English Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Italian Author \u003cb\u003eGianni Rodari\u003c\/b\u003e wrote many beloved children's books and was awarded the prestigious Andersen Prize. But he was also an educator of paramount importance in Italy and an activist who understood the liberating power of the imagination. He is one of the twentieth century's greatest authors for children, and Italy's greatest. Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of poetic language, metaphor, made-up language, and play. At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Grammar of Fantasy\u003c\/i\u003e, a radically imaginative book about storytelling and play. He was a forerunner of writing techniques such as the \"fantastic binomial\" and the utopian, world engendering \"what if....\" The relevance of Rodari's works today lies in his poetics of imagination, his humanist yet challenging approach to reality, and his themes, such as war and peace, immigration, injustice, inequality, and liberty. Forty years after his death, Rodari's writing is as powerful and innovative as ever. He died in Rome in 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eValerio Vidali\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Forest, \u003c\/i\u003e co-illustrated with Violeta Lopíz was published by Enchanted Lion in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntony Shugaar\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator, working out of Italian and French. He once interviewed the creator of Topo Gigio. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.6 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mildred L. Batchelder Award (2021)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771158331680,"sku":"9781592702848","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/48e4a4152c5c2ac076643526bcc9fb8f.webp?v=1780382794","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/telephone-tales-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}