One night, it’s a carousel so beloved by children that an old man finally sneaks on to understand why, and as he sails above the world, he does. Each story is set in a different place and a different time, with unconventional characters and a wonderful mix of reality and fantasy. Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales is composed of many stories––in fact, seventy short stories, with one for each phone call. But since it's still the 20th century world of pay phones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr.
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