Gianni Rodari

Una scuola grande come il mondo Il trionfo dello zero - The Triumph of the Zero Storie di Natale - Christmas Tales Animali senza zoo - Animals not in the Zoo Uno e Sette - One and Seven A School as Big as the World illustrated by Elena Del Vento, 32 pages, age 5+ ill. by Alistar and A. Ruta, 88 and 160 pages, age 6+ illustrated by Anna Laura Cantone, 48 pages, age 6+ illustrated by Vittoria Facchini, 32 pages, age 5+ A genuine wizard of words, Gianni Rodari could turn any occasion into Anna Laura Cantone does a magnificent job illustrating short stories about animals by This is the story of a child who really is 7 children. Each child lives in a different part of illustrated by Allegra Agliardi, 32 pages, age 5+ This picture book, inspired by a poem by Gianni Rodari, represents yet another poetry. And so readers young and old will find this anthology dedicated Gianni Rodari. Rodari takes up the ancient tradition of the fable, at times placing the the world with different fathers... invitation from the author to look at things in a different way. It tells the poetic Gianni Rodari talks about a school as big as the world itself. The teachers are profes- to the Christmas festivities marked by the extraordinary signature animal-protagonists in classical situations, at times endowing them with virtues and vices Gianni Rodari was the first writer to tell children about such an important issue as peace. story of a Zero that alone is worthless, but when put next to a One can become a sors but also carpenters, even the sun and the stars do teach something in that school. imagination of “Wizard Gianni”: greetings for everyone, red Indians in the of the modern world. With her unmistakable flair, Anna Laura Cantone creates an irresist- His message is as crisp and modern as ever and the bright illustrations by Vittoria Facchini no less than a Ten! ”. Some lessons are easy, some are difficult. You can learn how to speak, but also how nativity scene, sparrows nesting on the Christmas tree, surprisingly jaunty ible saraband of humour. help making it even livelier. snowmen and trains bringing us wagon loads of toys at New Year’s Eve. to play and even how to get angry. You never stop learning, and what you do not know yet, is always much more important than what you already know. This school is the Rights sold: Russian, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Rumanian, Portuguese (only Portugal), Bulgarian. Rights sold: Castilian, Portuguese (Brazil only), Greek, Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. entire world: you just have to look around yourself and you will get full marks! Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil only). Storia universale - Universal History Alice nelle figure - Alice in the Pictures Il pittore - The Painter 864 pages, ill. by Bruno 704 pages, 480 pages, 480 pages, Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil only), Castilian, Catalan, Turkish. Munari anthology of 5 books anthology of 8 books anthology of 4 books illustrated by Bombo!, 32 pages, age 4+ illustrated by Anna Laura Cantone, 32 pages, age 5+ illustrated by Valeria Petrone, 40 pages, age 4+ anthology of 6 books RODARI all year round Rights sold: Castilian. The Colours of Trades Telling the story of the world and man’s role on Earth in less than one hundred and fifty 320 pages, ill. by Antonella Abbatiello The Sky Belongs to Everyone I colori dei mestieri - Alice is a funny character created by Gianni Rodari, and she always falls into things: alarm The main character in this nursery rhyme is a painter who is so poor he pulls his hair out collection of short stories and rhymes Edizioni EL Il cielo è di tutti - words. With simplicity, conveying emotions and, above all, using language suitable for illustrated by Alessandro Sanna, 72 pages, age 6+ clocks, pockets, soap bubbles... How does she do that? And how is it possible to pull her to make his brushes. But what colours can he use, seeing as he cannot buy any paints? He illustrated by Nicoletta Costa, 32 pages, age 4+ children. Sounds like a mission impossible? Not for Gianni Rodari, who managed it with out? It’s always a tricky problem. This time she falls into an illustrated fairytale book: it’s goes to ask to borrow some from the master of each colour, but absolutely no one is willing Einaudi Ragazzi this text, the closing text in Tales on the Phone. Here, as in all Gianni Rodari’s works, In this wonderful book, Nicoletta Costa, one of Italy’s best-loved illustrators, brings Rodari describes – together with the unmistakable, poetical drawing by Alessandro going to be a lot of fun! to give him any. What nursery rhyme is better suited to being illustrated? Rodari from A to Z there is wit and, above all, that “universal” and impartial point of view that makes his all her skill and bright, joyful, easy-to-read style to a splendid nursery rhyme from Sanna – the real appearance of those who work, who, every day, do their part in Emme Edizioni making things work, so that everyone can enjoy a common good, since even the message up-to-date and applicable to all mankind. illustrated by Chiara Armellini, 192 pages, age 5+ Gianni Rodari’s “Book of Errors”. In his customary, concise and simple style, Rodari Rights sold: Korean, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. Gianni Rodari humblest of trades has its own dignity. A collection of stories and nursery rhymes by Gianni Rodari, the great wizard of asks a question that humanity has still not found an answer to: “Why is there only one Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil only). Rights sold: Korean, Portuguese (Brazil only), Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. words, the greatest Italian writer of children’s stories of the Twentieth Century sky when the earth is broken into lots of pieces?” Tonino l’invisibile - Tonino the Invisible La passeggiata di un distratto - The Walk of an Absent-Minded L’omino della pioggia - The Little Rain Man who, with his imagination and intelligence has always charmed adults too. The illustrated by Alistar, 32 pages, age 5+ illustrated by Alessandro Sanna, 40 pages, age 7+ illustrated by Nicoletta Costa, 32 pages, age 4+ stories, fables and nursery rhymes included in this book are taken from his Rights sold: Castilian. Rights sold: Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. In one of the best-known Tales on the Phone, Gianni Rodari has fun portraying a typical charac- One of Gianni Rodari’s most famous stories. Alessandro Sanna has managed an extraor- most famous collections. The criterion for selection is a purely alphabetic game, teristic of childhood: absentmindedness. Little Giovanni is an absent-minded: he goes out for a Since clouds do not always pour rain, they must have taps. And obviously there must be dinary feat – creating the illustrations of an invisible character! without any attempt to create a logical thread but simply playing with letters, walk and he loses bits of his body, because he is busy following his train of thought. It is typical somebody who turns these taps on and off. His name, of course, is “the little rain man”, Alice Cascherina - Tumbling Alice Tonino satisfies his greatest wish and becomes invisible. But now that nobody can see commas, apostrophes and brackets, a criterion that we ﬂatter ourselves would La principessa Allegra - Princess Allegra of children, of all children, who think only about themselves, who live only in the present, in the and his job often gets very tiring… illustrated by Elena Temporin, 32 pages, age 5+ illustrated by Elena Temporin, 32 pages, age 4+ him, how can he take part in the laughter of his friends or his mother’s hugs? Being alone moment that disappears immediately to make way for another moment, another idea, another have pleased Rodari himself. is terrible! adventure. But for every absent-minded child there is a mummy who loves him just the way he A poetic and funny story. Allegra is a princess who always sees the bright side of life. She even keeps smiling The first of the eight Alice stories from Telephone Tales. Rights sold: Castilian (Spain and South America), Catalan, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil only), is and is always ready to put back the pieces he has lost along the way. Rights sold: Castilian. when her parents pass away and she is made queen, a job that turns out to be exceed- In her eagerness to go poking about everywhere, little Tumbling Alice tumbles over Turkish, Chinese Simple, Armenian. Rights sold: Castilian. Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil only), Castilian, Greek, Turkish, Basque. ingly dull and dreary! While her people adore her, the court is plotting as usual and in the most unthinkable places. She tumbles into the alarm clock, into the bottle eventually Allegra is deposed and the kingdom plunged into rack and ruin. When her and into the back of drawers. She even tumbles into her daddy’s jacket pocket. La filastrocca di Pinocchio - The Story of Pinocchio The Finest Stories and Rhymes of Gianni Rodari faithful subjects return her crown, it is time for Allegra to marry. But she agrees to Luckily she always manages to escape! Che cosa ci vuole - What do you need? Le favole a rovescio - Tales told Backwards wed only the man who can ask for her hand without making her laugh. Everyone fails, illustrated by Febe Sillani, 40 pages, age 6+ illustrated by Silvia Bonanni, 32 pages, age 4+ illustrated by Nicoletta Costa, 32 pages, age 4+ illustrated by Elisa Paganelli, 320 pages, age 4+ except for one poor peasant who looks at her from a distance without laughing. He has Published for the first time in the fifties and constructed through commented drawings A priceless illustrated book, where Gianni Rodari’s very simple text is greatly enhanced Short or very short stories, rhymes and nursery rhymes selected from the rich been to war so he knows the meaning of pain and he is ready to share that knowledge Rights sold: Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex, Castilian, Portuguese (Brazil and rhyming couplets, this nursery rhyme is a homage by Rodari to one of the characters In brief verses, some of the most famous traditional fairy tales are told in an absurd, often by the splendid images in collage. The text, which is as elegantly dry as a geometrical output of Rodari and collected here in 5 sections divided according to theme. with Allegra in a new life based on compassion, serenity and awareness. only). best loved by children all over the world. True to the novel but capable of winning over hilarious way. Rodari’s wit and humour create a fantastic atmosphere, enriched by the demonstration, explains how there cannot be tables without wood, and therefore, by going upside down character of these tales told backwards, and at the end you’re invited to use Unforgettable characters, stories outside of time, verses sculpted out of words and modern children, accustomed to picture stories, for decades it has always won its bet: back one step at a time, “to make a table you need a flower.” There is sometimes a short your own imagination: ‘Whatever happened next, it’s up to you to figure it out.’ kaleidoscopic images on the thread of Gianni Rodari’s magical words. Dazzling L’omino dei sogni - The Little Man of Dreams Giacomo di cristallo - Christal James bringing small readers to love Collodi’s masterpiece. A small treasure for people who love step between the elegance of geometry to the fragrance of poetry. illustrated by Vitali Konstaninov, 32 pages, age 5+ Pinocchio. Brought up-to-date and enriched by new illustrations. little texts that highlight the wit, the vivid imagination, the lightness of touch and illustrated by Anna Laura Cantone, 32 pages, age 5+ Rights sold: Hebrew, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Greek, Simple Chinese, Chinese the humor of Rodari whose stories continue to entertain old and young readers and For Gianni Rodari, the little man of dreams is a little prompter: while we sleep he The unforgettable story of the see-through boy, whose thoughts and innermost emo- Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Complex. Rights sold: Castilian, Basque. preserve intact his gift for making them enjoy themselves. whispers a few words to our ears, and we are immediately transported to fantastic tions are even on view for everyone to see. A terrible tyrant imprisons him because of worlds. In this lively story, images from different dreams follow one after the other, his transparency. But “the truth is more powerful than any other thing, it is brighter Lo zoo delle storie - The Zoo of Stories A sbagliare le storie - When Stories are mistold La guerra delle campane - The War of the Bells unexpectedly slipping into each other, following the words whispered by the little than daylight, and more dreadful than a hurricane”. illustrated by Fulvio Testa, 48 pages, age 7+ illustrated by Alessandro Sanna, 40 pages, age 5+ illustrated by Pef, 32 pages, age 5+ Illustrated by Vitali Konstantinov, selected at the Illustrators Exhibition at the man. Who is then this little character whose words bring us to fantastic worlds where With these stories Rodari has fun constructing a chain of tales and, of course, the final story is Just take this superb large-sized edition of A sbagliare le storie in which the tale of Little Red Bologna Children’s Bookfair in 2010. skilfully linked to the first one. And each story stands alone, independent from the others, in Riding Hood is warped, twisted and twirled around by a grandfather who seems quite unable to Two countries are fighting a long lasting war. It’s us against them. Our General plans to fiction/anthology anything is possible? The rhyme does not say that, but in some way it seems to be... build the ultimate gun with the bells taken from the churches. The enemy’s General has Rodari himself! a simple yet ingenious narrative construction. The protagonists are almost all animals at a zoo tell it right. Provided of course that he wants to… Colours, quotations and an original graphic where freedom and imagination are the rule, the same freedom and imagination with which interpretation of Rodari’s poetical theory of error humorously blend in the lush collages which the same idea. Both Generals think their weapons shall bring war to an end, but how can churches’ bells put an end to war? Rights sold: Castilian, Portuguese (Brazil only). Rights sold: Castilian, Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. only children see the world. A masterly interpretation by Fulvio Testa, whose drawings show capture the energy and wit of each and every turn of the story in a stunning crescendo leading Grammatica della fantasia the happy spaces of this zoo made up of stories, animals and imagination. up to the surprise ending. The Grammar of Imagination 192 pages Il Filobus numero 75 - The Bus number 75 La strada che non andava in nessun posto Rights sold: Korean, Portuguese (Brazil only). Rights sold: Castilian, Galician, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), French, Korean, Catalan, Dutch. Rights sold: Japanese. The Road that Went Nowhere This famous book by Gianni Rodari focuses on how our imagination works in illustrated by Blanca Gómez, 32 pages, age 5+ I viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno - Giovannino Perdigiorno’s A inventare i numeri - Making up Numbers Il re Mida - King Midas order to take us beyond the wall of a dull scholastic routine and into the fascinat- illustrated by Fulvio Testa, 32 pages, age 6+ ing world of creativity. According to Rodari, a word is similar to a stone thrown Bus number 75 runs every day on its usual route through Rome, but one morning, There were three paths leading out of the village, the one to the seaside, the one to the city Travels illustrated by Alessandro Sanna, 32 pages, age 4+ illustrated by Francesco Altan, 32 pages, age 6+ into a pond: while the latter produces a series of rapidly changing concentric suddenly, takes its passengers out of the city to the edge of a forest. Passengers are and the one that led to nowhere. In spite of all the bans, one day Martin Hardhead decided supposed to go to work, so they start protesting against the driver. Slowly, however, the to follow that path right to the end, and it led to a fabulous castle. Here he was welcomed illustrated by Valeria Petrone, 40 pages, age 5+ A very fast exchange of quips on the telephone, a simple but fun game: making up num- One of the most famous “Tales on the Phone” is the one about the most famous King ripples which gently stir the water-lilies as well as a child’s paper-boat, the bers which don’t exist. Can you illustrate a fable on the phone all made up of puns? You in Greek Mythology, who was doomed by a spell to turn everything he touched into gold. former triggers incredibly intricate chain-reactions involving sounds and images, passengers get off and enjoy the beauty of the wood. Now that all are having fun, the by a marvellous lady who congratulated him for not believing the fib about the path leading Giovannino Perdigiorno is a child traveller who, on board the weirdest vehicles, ends up in most certainly can: Alessandro Sanna does it by using the numbers as colourful graphic But Gianni Rodari’s creativity enhances the classical ending with an irreverent surprise…. bus is ready to leave and magically not even a minute has passed: every passenger cab nowhere, and she gave him boundless treasures to take back to the village. That very same some really outlandish countries: in one he finds men made of butter, in another the men dreams, memories and - endlessly - other words and analogies… signs, and transforms the figures into faces, cats, blackbirds, people….. it’s a must! be at work on time! It is the first day of spring, everything is possible! evening, many of the villagers rushed along the same path, but at the end of it all they found are see-through and so on. Valeria Petrone interprets Gianni Rodari’s famous character was a sea of thorns, because “some treasures only exist for those who beat a new road first.” with a liberating freshness, offering readers a whiff of the fragrance of utopia. Rights sold: French, German, Chinese Simple, Castilian (Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Latin America), Catalan, Galician, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Rumanian, Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil only), French, Korean, Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Portuguese (Brazil only). Rights sold: Castilian, Simple Chinese, Chinese Complex. Rights sold: Castilian, Portuguese (Brazil). Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese Complex, Dutch. picture books picture books picture books picture books picture books essays 2017 New Titles and Back List Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. His a smile. fax: +34 93 4514869 fax: +49 89 366372 workshop of a storyteller. sage of cheerfulness and hope. all the other “stories in orbit”! imagination of Gianni Rodari. sufferings and their hopes. flights of fantasy are still e-mail: e-mail: amusing and fascinating. Rights sold: English (worldwide), French, Chinese Rights sold: French, Castilian, Albanian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Castilian, French, Chinese Simple, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, German, Russian, Rights sold: Castilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Castilian, Catalan, Rights sold: French, Greek, Albanian, Turkish, Rights sold: Chinese Simple. [email protected] [email protected] Simple, Turkish, Japanese. Simple, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil only), Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian. Chinese Complex, Portuguese (Brazil only), Japanese, Ukrainian, Chinese Simple, Turkish. Chinese Simple, German. Turkish. Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Hungarian, www.uklitag.com www.melleragency.com Hungarian, Slovak. Greek, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Catalan. Russian, Ukrainian. Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction Fiction BIO / contacts Favole al telefono - Tales on the Phone Filastrocche in cielo e in terra Il libro degli errori Fiabe lunghe Il libro dei perché Prime fiabe e Il gioco dei Gli affari I viaggi di Giovannino Il secondo libro Versi e storie is one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors for children. illustrated by Bruno Munari, 132 pages, age 6+ Rhymes in Sky and Earth The Book of Errors un sorriso The Book of Why’s filastrocche quattro cantoni del signor Gatto Perdigiorno delle filastrocche di parole Gianni Rodari Ill. by Bruno Munari. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant in a Ill. by Bruno Munari. Fables long Why don’t fish drown? Why are First Tales and Puss-in-the-Corner Mr Cat’s Business Giovannino The Second Book of Word Stories A collection of short poems in grown-ups always right? Why doesn’t Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of con- company, rings his daughter up and tells her a story. There are seventy short which the fantastic world of as a Smile my dad ever win the football pools? Nonsense Rhymes A collection of amusing A collection of stories and Perdigiorno’s Travels Nonsense Rhymes and Rhymes Short stories and rhymes stories, one for each phone call. Every story is set in a different place and in the Author is showing in all its “The game of why is the oldest in the short stories where a cow rhymes about cats. The Giovannino is a great ceiving poetry as a playful activity and a means to recover the rhythm and sound of the about “funny” mistakes More than fifty fables, some world” warns Rodari, “Children shoot From a dull and colourless These rhymes express chil- Rodari is fascinated by language a different time, with unusual and unconventional characters. A wonderful wittiness. Like an expert conjurer, eats the rainbow, there are main story is about Mr. explorer, he is curious and Rodari surprises the reader page made by inattentive pupils, short, some a bit longer, theirs like a machine gun.” Each reality, Rodari moves into a dren’s freedom and smile tricks, grammar rules and writ- oral tradition of nursery rhymes, explore the potential of the language and exploit the com- mix of reality and vivid fantasy. flying carpets, a mermaid in Cat who wants to become loves great adventures. The after page with new characters, boring teachers or sports- all marked by the imagina- ‘why’, rather than being liquidated world of fireworks and sur- at grammar mistakes. They ing mistakes. This book is a by sensible, adult answers, became love with humans… Thanks rich. After many ideas he worlds he sees however binatory and releasing power of words. This is what children’s poetry is today, and today funny sketches, eclectic visions of men, all not altogether com- tion and creative talent that prises. We’ll meet miracle are rhymes that make us fly sort of amusing grammar, where Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese, Greek, Korean, a pretext for nursery rhymes, stories to a skillful and simple decides to set up in busi- don’t satisfy him entirely, daily life. A triumph of humor and fortable with grammar rules. have made Rodari one of plants, extraordinary char- with fantasy in wonderful ironic stories tell us the origin Bulgarian, French, Chinese Simple, Bosnian, Turkish, Russian, Georgian, Vietnamese, and fantastic inventions. style, children can approach ness with the tin’s mouse so he leaves, dreaming of at school children play at ‘making poetry’. intelligence. One of the best book Have a good laugh! children’s favourite authors. acters and strange places. worlds. They are divided in pages 72, of some words and how they Italian in Germany, Arabic, Armenian, Rumenian, Slovak, Portuguese, English. pages 160, age 6+ by Rodari, ever. pages 160, age 9+ pages 176, pages pages 96, A real fantasy masterpiece. pages 224, surrealistic fiction and learn pages 72, beef production. No easy pages 96, a land where everything is pages 112, four groups of rhymes: from changed through history to come At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote La grammatica to play with words. job to convince mice to go age 7+ age 6+ 192, age 7+ age 11+ age 8+ age 6+ perfect, beautiful and flaw- age 7+ tongue twisters to rhymes to the present meaning. into business with the cat! less. della fantasia (The Grammar of Imagination), a book on the art of making up and writ- age 9+ centered on the unexpected Le avventure di Gelsomino nel vitality of everyday things. ing stories. Rodari was a forerunner of writing techniques such as that of the ‘fantastic Cipollino paese dei bugiardi Rights sold: Catalan, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese Rights sold: German, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: French, Chinese Simple, Polish, Turkish. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. binomial’, of the ‘what happened after’ and the ‘what happened if...’, which now play a key The Adventures of Gelsomino in the Simple, Bulgarian. Rights sold: Chinese Simple, Russian, Portuguese role in creative writing and are still employed by teachers and authors of children’s books. Cipollino Land of Liars Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan. Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian. (Brazil). The relevance of Rodari’s works today lies in his poetics of imagination, in his ironic Cipollino is a young onion who There is somewhere and some- Il pianeta degli La freccia azzurra Venti storie più una Atalanta - Atalanta Filastrocche Novelle La gondola fantasma Storie di Altre storie Marionette in libertà could not go to school, so he goes time that land of liars, where approach to reality and to social and civic issues such as war and peace, emigration, out into the real world, trying to bread is ink, where green is alberi di Natale The Blue Arrow Twenty Stories Atalanta is present in the per tutto l’anno fatte a macchina The Ghost Gondola Marco e Mirko Other Stories Freewheeling Puppets understand where evil and good red, where the dogs mew and The Christmas Tree The blue arrow is an electric train, myths best known and loved Nursery Rhymes Typewritten Stories Marco and Mirko injustice, inequality and liberty. the cats bark. Just imagine plus one Set in Venice, this amus- A Fairy on a sightseeing tour, the A collection of three stories lie. It will not take him long to the finest toy in the toy shop. by the young. She follows ing story is based on the what happens in a country Planet for a whole Year Martian point of view seeing the where three puppets, tired of Thirty five years since his death, Rodari’s writing appears to be as powerful and innovative see that evil is a characteristic of Francesco will never have enough the ship of the Argonauts magic of Italian carnival Stories Ill. by Bruno Munari. money to buy it. But a toy dog The numerous protagonists A masterpiece by the great human being for the first time... hanging from a thread, decide Prince Lemon and his henchmen, like that when Gelsomino, and Jason when they win Just less than one hundred nurs- masks. There is the son of as ever. pages 176, pages 160, and a wise Indian Chief have read of this collection of stories Gianni Rodari, who winds Stories about the twins Again dozens of eclectic char- to leave the theater for freedom. like the Cavalier Tomato. Cipollino accustomed to ‘telling things Marco lands on a planet where the Golden Fleece, she over- ery rhymes on different topics a caliph who is kidnapped, his thoughts. One night the toys live in a world that swings his way through the vices Marco e Mirko who help age 7+ fights and overcomes the arro- age 7+ the way they are’ arrives. One every day it’s Christmas Day sees Hercules in his labours, make this book one of the best many famous masks like acters come out from Rodari’s They will of course meet hordes For his works and translations (over 50 languages) he received many awards and honours, escape from the shop. A crowd of between fables and reality, and virtues of our current gance of Prince Lemon and in the of Gianni Rodari’s most amus- and where trees are decorated Theseus’ battle with the and most precious anthologies Pulcinella and Arlecchino adults solve myster- magic top hat. of strange people and end up toy characters throngs the splen- be tween adventure and daily way of living. Weird charac- included the Andersen Prize in 1970, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for chil- end founds a Republic. ing stories. with sweets and festoons. Minotaur and many other of Rodari’s world. From school and a mysterious ‘gondola’ ies thanks to their spirit in funny situations, as always did carriages of the Blue Arrow life. The stories are told by Here whatever you need is and its journey is protected by adventures. Atalanta shows to big cities, from camping ters and funny unexpected (the typical Venetian boat). of enterprise and love for in the fantastic world of Gianni Rodari at his best, inventive dren’s literature. Rights sold: French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Japanese, Rights sold: Russian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese free, and technology serves cowboys and Indians. The adven- us a ‘different’ Rodari, as he grounds to grandfather’s pearls situations. Misunderstandings, people adventure. Everything, of pages 96, pages 128, Rodari. pages 144, pages 128, pages 168, and humourous. pages 96, pages 152, pages 240, pages 112, pages 112, Georgian, Vietnamese, Chinese Simple, Chinese Complex, Complex, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Hebrew, men. Back from his journey, tures of Francesco and the army deals with stories taken from of wisdom, from the cats of mistaken for other people, course, is surrounded by age 7+ age 7+ He died in Rome in 1980. age 9+ he brings with him the wish to age 6+ of toys will only come to a surpris- age 7+ age 8+ classic mythology, to which he age 7+ Rome to the trades of today and age 11+ age 9+ and a lot more make this age 9+ the fantastic world that only Macedonian, Turkish, Russian, German, Latvian, Albanian, Greek, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Rumanian. ing end at dawn. book irresistibly funny. Rumanian, Armenian, Italian in Russia, Slovak, Bielorussian. see Earth transformed into a brings his humour. yesterday, this writer so dear to Rodari is able to conjure up. foreign rights: Gaia Stock Rights sold: wonderful planet of Christmas Rights sold: Castilian, Korean, Russian, Croatian, children ranges their world with Castilian, French, Trees. A great lesson of justice Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Chinese Complex, Chinese Rights sold: Russian, Ukrainian, Castilian, Chinese Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Russian. his customary irony and wisdom. Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Japanese, Rights sold: Castilian, Chinese Simple, Bulgarian Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Turkish, Chinese Rights sold: Albanian, Chinese Simple. Rights sold: Chinese Simple. by Gianni Rodari. Edizioni EL - Einaudi Ragazzi - Emme Edizioni C’era due volte il La torta in cielo Russian (hard cover). Simple, Japanese, Turkish, Armenian, Bosnian. Simple, Greek. Hungarian, Chinese Simple, German, Russian, Greek. Simple, Hungarian. Via J. Ressel 5, 34018 San Dorligo della Valle (Trieste) Italy Ukrainian, Turkish. barone Lamberto A Pie in the Sky tel: +39 040 3880313, fax: +39 040 3880330 Twice upon a time Ill. by Bruno Munari. Le avventure di Tante storie Piccoli vagabondi Filastrocche La favolette di Fiabe e Fantafiabe Zoo di storie Fra i banchi Gip nel televisore Agente X.99: e-mail: [email protected] - www.edizioniel.com there was baron A little town is deranged by Tonino l’invisibile per giocare Young Tramps lunghe e corte Alice Tales and Fantatales e versi In among the Desks Gip in the TV storie e versi dallo spazio Lamberto a mysterious ‘flying saucer’. Alice’s Little Stories Adults think of an alien inva- The Adventures of Lots of Stories to This is the story of three children Long and Short Extraordinary words, smart and A Zoo of Stories and For Gianni Rodari the school Although he has a great pas- Agent X.99: Ill. by Bruno Munari. sion and are ready to call Tonino the Invisible Play Around With who, immediately after the War, Nursery Rhymes clumsy thieves, an unexpected Verses is a place where learning and sion for television, Gip never Stories from Outer Space SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE GERMANY were forced to abandon their Thanks to her very small Old Baron Lamberto is very in the army, scientists and Three stories dedicated to the This is the best-known of Gianni journey into the future on a amusement should coexist would have thought that he SPEAKING COUNTRIES village and undertake a long jour- This anthology contains size, Alice can explore Many of the stories written Agent x.99 is just looking for researchers. But two children unknown continent of childhood, Rodari’s ‘flights of imagination’ colourful merry-go-round, fan- in harmony. This is the ideal could fly over the room and fall rich and ill. He lives with ney through Italy. From Roma to some of the best nursery things and hidden places. by Gianni Rodari talk about friends, which is why he sets out don’t believe it is an alien to its electrifying adventures, for his young public: twenty tasy mixed with reality, magic anthology of short stories right into the magical machine, his butler in a villa on the the Adriatic coast, from Ferrara rhymes by Gianni Rodari, Everyone in her family animals. This is an ideal on a space journey. The planets Sandra Rodericks Cristina Bernardi invasion and the facts prove melancholy, secrets. The young stories each with three different solutions and common sense. creating all kinds of problems pages 112, island of San Giulio. He pages 112, to Milano, they involve the reader great educator with endless knows how fond she is of zoo which is not a prison, he would have been happy he visits and the different peo- Michael Meller Literary Agency them right: it’s not a “flying protagonists, where everyday life endings with an explicit invita- These amusing and humorous in the net...but this is what Ute Körner Literary Agent has to reckon with his avid saucer” at all, but a huge and in a profound human and social imagination, who spoke to adventures and is not sur- but a place of happiness, to suggest as school read- ple he meets are described with age 11+ age 9+ mingles with incredible invention, tion to use your imagination to stories underline the impor- happens in a quiet apartment C/Aragó, 224-pral-2 Landwehrstrasse 17 nephew, with terrible ban- tasty cake, that they will eat invent others. At the end of the experience. Adven tures with the world of childhood like prised at her sudden disap- where the reader can find ings. All of them are sim- humour and wit. are children from the past, but tance of solidarity and the in Milan. And that’s not all! The pages 88, ES-08011 Barcelona, Spain 80336 München, Germany dits and with a crowd of with lots of friends. pages 64, pages 176, book the author himself com- pages 120, which Rodari once again shows pages 88, a child, understanding and pages 64, pearances and prodigious pages 96, pages 104, the pleasure of the tale and pages 208, ple, amusing and capable to pages 168, like all children they live in a par- need for a critical reflection story has a funny conclusion age 9+ tel: +49 89 366371 people that keep repeating ments on the various endings, his extraordinary attention for the stimulating the public he reappearances. the freedom of fantasy. make children think through tel: +34 93 3238970 age 6+ allel world inaccessible to adults, age 7+ age 9+ age 7+ age 6+ age 7+ on the world we live in. A mes- age 8+ age 7+ age 8+ that will make us want to read his name. unless they have the talent and introducing his readers to the feelings of ordinary people, their loved best: children. 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