Gianni Rodari, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar, illus. by Federico Maggioni. Melville House, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-935554-61-5
If Roald Dahl had rewritten The Picture of Dorian Gray to include a gang of 24 bandits and a giant balloon, the result might have been Rodari's wonderfully improbable novel that, for all its humor, is loosely based upon the 1978 kidnapping and...
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Gianni Rodari, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar, illus. by Valerio Vidali. Enchanted Lion, $27.95 (212p) ISBN 978-1-59270-284-8
“Every evening—no matter where he was—at nine o’clock on the dot, Signor Bianchi put in a phone call to Varese and told his little girl a story.” In the 70 brief stories told within this frame, the irrepressible Rodari plays with words, numbers (“ele
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Gianni Rodari, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar, illus. by Dasha Tolstikova. Enchanted Lion, $29.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59270-416-3
Wry text by Rodari (The Book of Whys) presents the satirical adventures of young Cipollino (or “Little Onion”), one of seven brothers living in a whimsical world populated by anthropomorphic fruits, vegetables, insects, and animals. After Cipollino’s
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Gianni Rodari, Author, David Anglin, Translator, Beatrice Alemagna, Illustrator , illus. by Beatrice Alemagna. Mariuccia Iaconi $17.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-9628720-6-8
This hopeful but short-sighted allegory, a translation of a short story by Italian writer Rodari, opens with an enigmatic statement: "I knew one child who was 7
children." Seven crudely drawn boys, each with a different skin color and shirt-
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Gianni Rodari, trans. from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar, illus. by Beatrice Alemagna. Enchanted Lion, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-59270-360-9
In this story about a grown-up who can’t get a simple story right, an excerpt from Rodari’s Telephone Tales, Grandpa, to the exasperated delight of his grandchild, is all mixed up about “Little Red Riding Hood.” As the grandfather changes the story’s
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Gianni Rodari, illus. by JooHee Yoon, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Enchanted Lion, $27.95 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59270-364-7
Based on columns that Rodari (A Daydreamy Child Takes a Walk) wrote for Italian daily newspaper l’Unità from 1955 to 1958 in which he addressed wide-ranging topics from young readers, this quixotic collection of poems provides comical answers for...
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