"Essays on fairy tales, imagination, and fantasy from award-winning children's author Gianni Rodari ... translated by Jack Zipes and illustrated for the first time ... offering inspiration for readers and educators interested in children's literature and creativity."-- Provided b...
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Grandpa playfully recounts a familiar fairytale--or his version, at least--to his granddaughter, and try as she might to get him back on track, he keeps on adding things to the mix, resulting in an unpredictable tale that comes alive as it is being told.
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Factual as well as whimsical, and humorously illustrated, this is the first English-language publication of the answers given by one of Italy's greatest and most beloved children's authors to children's questions about animals, nature, technology, and culture. Gianni Rodari is wi...
Despite his best intentions, Giovanni cannot help but get distracted by the interesting world around him.
The book contains short fairy tales and famous stories by the author. For example, about the Absent-Minded Boy, who lost everything in the world, looking around.
"Twenty-four are the illnesses of Baron Lamberto, a very old and very rich and very sick gentleman, and only the faithful butler Anselmo remembers them all. One day at his villa in the middle of Lake Orta, the treacherous nephew Ottavio knocks, full of debts and with the worst in...
In this enchantingly whimsical tale from Italy's great children's author, Gianni Rodari, a young onion named Cipollino sets out into the world to study scoundrels, and in so doing, he undoes the tyrannical Prince Lemon, while making a legion of friends along the way. Cipollino i...
Travelling salesman Mr. Bianchi from Varese, Italy calls his daughter every night at 9:00 to tell her a story. To be able to afford the calls he makes the stories brief.
The adventures of the little onion-boy Chipollino in a land ruled by a wicked tomato-king.
Travelling salesman Mr. Bianchi from Varese, Italy calls his daughter every night at 9:00 to tell her a story. To be able to afford the calls he makes the stories brief.
Intricate questions of children sometimes put about the deadlock of adults the surprise and singularity. Many cheerful answers to such questions were collected in the "Book by why-askers" by the Italian writer and the storyteller Gianni Rodari. To read and learn - cheerfully and ...
For the first time, the most complete collection of the magnificent and world-famous fairy tales of Gianni Rodari is presented under one cover.
Sim, senhor jornalista, vivi durante anos como um eremita naquele pequeno asteroide, do qual vem o meu nome de guerra: X.99. O nosso universo tem para mim poucos segredos. Conheci mundos muito mais desenvolvidos do que o nosso e outros mais atrasados. Conheci tambem misturas bast...