{"product_id":"telephone-tales-by-gianni-rodari-9781592702848","title":"Telephone Tales","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\/strong\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Hans Christian Andersen 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)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelephone Tales\u003c\/i\u003e entertains, while questioning and imagining other worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2021 Batchelder Award and the 2020 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs's English Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647730204908,"sku":"9781592702848","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/fd51527b528748f310a2480ef6be3f33.jpg?v=1779234635","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/telephone-tales-by-gianni-rodari-9781592702848","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}