Telephone Tales

Each night at nine o’clock, no matter where his travels take him, Mr. Bianchi pops a coin into a pay phone and spins a brand-new bedtime tale for his daughter each one just long enough to fit the timer’s ticking. So begins Telephone Tales, a marvelous collection of seventy tiny stories, each brimming with mischief, magic, and the deliciously unexpected.

There are carousels that soar above the world, lands paved in chocolate, butter gentlemen, and shrimps with rather heroic ideas about life. Written by the great Gianni Rodari—Italy’s most beloved children’s author of the 20th century and winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award—this newly illustrated edition invites readers to slip into a world where imagination knows no curfew.

Winner of the 2021 Batchelder Award.

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