Rodari Renaissance: Italian Children’s Book Icon Enchants U.S. Readers 100 Years On

Rodari’s publishing journey with Enchanted Lion got off to a promising start in 2020 with Telephone Tales (Favole al telefono, 1962), translated into English for the first time in its entirety by Antony Shugaar, and illustrated by Valerio Vidali. The edition received the 2020 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ English Translation Prize and the 2021 Mildred L. Batchelder Award. Rodari earned the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal a half-century earlier, in 1970.