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  • The Grammar of Fantasy

    An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Translated by Jack Zipes ...
    From the father of modern Italian children’s literature, this is one of the great works about the imagination and how stories are made—featuring radiant illustrations from Matthew Forsythe and a refreshed translation from Jack Zipes.A Marginalian Favorite Book of 2025!"Holds great value for the adults who teach kids and the adults who write for them." —Mac Barnett, U.S. National Ambassador for ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Adventures of Cipollino

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova ...
    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 of friends along the way.A 2026 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book!One of 100 Scope Notes**’s Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2025!**<... ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Illustrated by Roman Muradov ...
    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 MuradovOne of Betsy Bird's Top Unconventional Children's Books of 2025!One of Betsy Bird's Top Translated Children's ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling Stories Wrong

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna ...
    A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2022 ★****Everyone knows how "Little Red Riding Hood" goes. But Grandpa keeps getting the story all wrong, with hilarious results!"Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Little Yellow Riding Hood—" "Not yellow! It's Red Riding Hood!" So begins the story of a grandpa playfully recounting the well-known fairytale ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Whys

    by Gianni Rodari ...
    Illustrated by JooHee Yoon ...
    Factual as well as whimsical, and humorously illustrated, this is the first English-language publication of the answers given by one of Italy's greatest and most beloved children's authors to children's questions about animals, nature, technology, and culture.Winner of the 2023 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s English Translation Prize! Selected for the 2025 White Ravens catalog of notable ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Not at all Russian Collection for Kids

    Russian Collection for Kids: volume five

    by Folk tales, Pavel Bazhov, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Gianni Rodari, Myoko Matsutani, Selma Lagerlief, Astrid Lindgren ...
    Narrated by Darla Middlebrook ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Russian Collection for Kids

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    The fifth and final installment of Russian Collection for Kids goes well and truly outside of the boundaries of Russia and all over the world. Folk tales and stories by foreign authors, narratives from various continents, fanciful and fascinating storylines, people, places, and animals. This collection includes the following works:Golden Hair by Pavel Bazhov, RussiaA Living Man in the Kingdom of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Shoemaker's Wife

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    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... Read more

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  • Blood And Beauty

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