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Telling stories wrong
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- Book Synopsis
- Book cover reveal. Social media campaign on Instagram (32k following). Newsletter campaign to Enchanted Lion readers. Outreach to blogs and reviewers focused on translated literature. Interview with book's translator on Enchanted Lion blog. Promotion of title as part of Fall 2021 translation-focused list. Focused outreach to independent bookstores. Promotion in tandem with 100GianniRodari and other Rodari-focused organizations based in Italy. Promotion of this title as part of our larger Rodari program and commitment to publishing his books in the U.S. going forward. Promotion to organizations promoting Italian culture in the U.S. (Italian Cultural Institutes in NYC, Washington DC, and others)
- About The Author
- Italian author Gianni Rodari wrote many beloved children's books and was awarded the prestigious Andersen Prize. But he was also an educator of paramount importance in Italy and an activist who understood the liberating power of the imagination. He is one of the twentieth century's greatest authors for children, and Italy's greatest. Influenced by French surrealism and linguistics, Rodari stressed the importance of poetic language, metaphor, made-up language, and play. At a time when schooling was all about factual knowledge, Rodari wrote The Grammar of Fantasy, a radically imaginative book about storytelling and play. He was a forerunner of writing techniques such as the "fantastic binomial" and the utopian, world engendering "what if...." The relevance of Rodari's works today lies in his poetics of imagination, his humanist yet challenging approach to reality, and his themes, such as war and peace, immigration, injustice, inequality, and liberty. Forty years after his death, Rodari's writing is as powerful and innovative as ever. He died in Rome in 1980.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781592703609
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Enchanted Lion Books, (21 June 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 40
- Weight
- 400 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 298 x 248 x 12 mm
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