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. 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. 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. 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. 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
entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds. Winner
of the 2021 Batchelder Award and the 2020 Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs’s English Translation Prize
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