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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2011
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • 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 Awardâ€"winner Antony Shugaar, illu...



  • Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a traveling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it’s a ca...



  • Chipollino - in Italian means onion. The hero of the book of the writer Gianni Rodari was an onion boy. And all the inhabitants of the country, which is told in the tale, were akin to some kind of fruit or vegetables. Chipollino had tufts of green on...







  • Written by Gianni Rodari, the father of modern Italian children's literature, and charmingly illustrated by award-winning artist Beatrice Alemagna, this bright, sweet story reminds us what children are really like in the most essential and beautiful ...



  • In this enchantingly whimsical tale from Italy's great children's author, Gianni Rodari, a young onion named Cipollino sets out into the world to study scoundrels, and in so doing, he undoes the tyrannical Prince Lemon, while making a legion ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gianni Rodari has published 7 books.

The next book by Gianni Rodari, The Adventures of Cipollino, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Gianni Rodari, Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto, was published in December 2011.

No. Gianni Rodari does not write books in series.