| Edition |
First US edition. |
| Description |
202 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in Italian: Turin, Italy : Einaudi, 1962 under the title, Favole al telefono. |
| Summary |
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly. |
| Awards |
Hans Christian Anderson Award, 1970. |
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Batchelder Award, 2021. |
| Contents |
The unlucky hunter -- The ice cream palace -- A distractible child goes for a walk -- A building for breaking -- The little old lady who counted sneezes -- The country without sharp edges -- The country with an un in front -- The butter man -- Alice Tumbledown -- The road of chocolate -- Inventing numbers -- Brif, Braf, Bruf -- Buying the city of Stockholm -- Touching the king's nose -- The famous rainstorm of Piombino -- The merry-go-round of Cesenatico -- On the beach at Ostia -- The comic strip mouse -- History of the kingdom of Pieholia -- Alice falls into the sea -- The war of the Bells -- The young crayfish -- The giant's hair -- The nose that ran away -- The road to nowhere -- The scarecrow -- Playing with a cane -- Old proverbs -- Apollonia the jam maker -- Old Aunt Ada -- The sun and the cloud -- The king who was going to die -- The comet sorcerer -- The fisherman of Cefalù -- King Midas -- The blue spotlight -- Bring down the nine -- Tonino the invisible boy -- So many questions -- Gilberto the good boy -- The words 'to cry' -- Gobbledy fever -- Sunday morning -- Sleeping, waking up -- Giacomo of crystal -- Monkeys on holiday -- Signor Fallaninna -- One and seven -- The man who stole the Colosseum -- Elevator to the stars -- Bus number 75 -- Dog town -- Pulcinella's escape -- The bricklayer from Valtellina -- The soldier's blanket -- The well at Cascina Piana -- Houses and apartment buildings -- Maestro Garrone -- The planet of truth |
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-- The conveyor sidewalk -- Space cooking -- Educational candy -- The cosmic chick -- Telling stories wrong -- Upgraded plus two -- The nothing man -- Universal history. |
| Subject |
Humorous stories.
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Short stories.
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Storytelling -- Fiction.
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Humorous stories.
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Short stories.
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JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play.
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JUVENILE FICTION / Short Stories.
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JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories.
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Humorous stories. (OCoLC)fst00963818
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01117043
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Humorous fiction.
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| Added Author |
Rodari, Gianni.
Favole al telefono. English.
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Vidali, Valerio, 1983- illustrator.
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Shugaar, Antony, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781592702848 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1592702848 hardcover alkaline paper |
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