RaveThe Times Literary SupplementTelephone Tales – published in 1962 as Favole al telefono – contains a dazzling collection of stories, displaying the full range of Rodari’s imagination, to be read at various levels but always with whole-hearted enjoyment ... The book itself is a thing of beauty, with tantalizing, full-colour illustrations by Valerio Vidali over double-page, fold-out spreads. Antony Shugaar devises parallels to Rodari’s exuberantly inventive language and finds an equivalent to the rhythms of his prose.
