Best Selling Books by Gianni Rodari

Los niños italianos, por Navidad, además de recibir la visita de Papá Noel, reciben la de la Befana, una bruja no demasiado mala, que deja regalos a todos los niños que han sido buenos y... los puedan pagar. Pero un año, los juguetes se rebelan y deciden poner justicia en tan injusto reparto. Un clásico de la literatura juvenil, una historia de aventuras para la educación en valores contada por la magnífica pluma del maestro Gianni Rodari.

From Gianni Rodari, the father of modern Italian children’s literature, comes a pithy, humorous tale about life and death, health and wealth . . . and bandits and balloons! A refreshed translation from Batchelder Award–winner Antony Shugaar, illustrated with all-new art from Roman Muradov “Gianni Rodari gave free rein to his imagination, with inspired panache and gleeful lightness. At the same time, he had a precise and meticulous love for detail, for rich and exact language, and so all of his inventions are set in a very concrete world with real form and action.” —Italo Calvino Baron Lamberto is very old, very rich, and very sick. He lives in a villa on a private island in the middle of Lake Orta, tended to by his trusty butler, Anselmo, who keeps track of the baron’s 24 maladies, 24 banks, and endless eccentricities. After a mysterious trip to Egypt, the baron hires six people to take up residence in the attic of his villa. Their only task? To repeat his name, “Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto,” throughout the day. Why? It’s anyone’s guess, but—wonder of wonders—Baron Lamberto does appear to be getting better and better, little by little, day by day. But trouble looms when Lamberto’s nefarious nephew Ottavio enters the scene, scheming up a way to get his hands on the baron’s fortune. And things go from bad to worse when a band of 24 bandits (all named Lamberto, too, by the way) lays siege to the baron’s villa and attempt to hold him for ransom. In typical Rodarian fashion, Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto is a thoroughly enjoyable, deeply thought-provoking read. While it playfully skewers the absurdities of the rich, the bureaucracy, the media, and more, it also encourages readers to liberate their imaginations, to expect the unexpected, and to embrace the kind of possibilities that normally only happen in fairy tales.

Lista de los mejores libros para niños y jóvenes (Banco del Libro, Venezuela) Alicia Paf es pequeña y siempre se mete en líos, aunque siempre sale airosa de sus fantásticas aventuras. Ella no se sorprende si cae dentro de una página llena de ilustraciones y habla con el Lobo o si cae dentro del tintero o se mete dentro de una pompa de jabón y tiene que volver a casa... Junto a Alicia es fácil vivir un mundo lleno de fantasía y de imaginación.

Una dulce canción de cuna creada por Gianni Rodari. Un texto delicado, poético y lleno de ternura que nos habla de la luna, habitante de la noche y fiel compañera, y de la relación cómplice que establece con una pequeña niña. Acompañan al texto las maravillosas ilustraciones de Andrea Antinori.

20 short stories.

Que se passerait-il si une violette fleurissait au Pôle Nord ? Si le nez d''un monsieur très sérieux prenait la fuite ? Si Mickey se retrouvait au milieu de vraies souris ? Gianni Rodari a réponse à tout : drôles ou tendres, ses histoires font toujours mouche !