| Description |
198 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in Italian: Turin, Italy : Einaudi, 1962 under the title, Favole al telefono. |
| 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 Cefalu ; King Midas ; The blue stoplight ; 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 ; The conveyor sidewalk ; Space cooking ; Educational candy ; The cosmic chick ; Telling stories wrong ; Upgraded plus two ; The nothing man ; Universal history. |
| Awards |
Hans Christian Anderson Award, 1970. |
| Summary |
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly. |
| Subject |
Humorous stories.
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Short stories -- Juvenile fiction.
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Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Vidali, Valerio, 1983- illustrator.
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Shugaar, Antony, translator.
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| Added Title |
Favole al telefono. English.
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| ISBN |
9781592702848 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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