Details

Subject(s)

• Short stories—20th century [Browse]

Illustrator

• Vidali, Valerio, 1983- [Browse]

Translator

• Shugaar, Antony [Browse]

Former owner

• Zipes, Jack [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]
• Humorous fiction [Browse]
• Short stories [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• short stories [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.

Notes

Originally published in Italian: Turin, Italy : Einaudi, 1962 under the title, Favole al telefono.

Awards

Hans Christian Anderson Award, 1970.

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 Pionmbino
• 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 cloud
• The kind 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 Collosseum
• 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.

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ISBN

• 9781592702848 ((hardcover : alk. paper))
• 1592702848

LCCN

2019011908

OCLC

1306225399

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