Rodari's name. Works by Gianni Rodari for children: list

This book contains most of my stories written for children over fifteen years. You will say that this is not enough. In 15 years, if I wrote only one page every day, I could already have about 5,500 pages. This means that I wrote much less than I could. And yet I don’t consider myself a big lazy person!

The fact is that during these years I was still working as a journalist and doing many other things. For example, I wrote articles for newspapers and magazines, dealt with school problems, played with my daughter, listened to music, went for a walk, and thought. And thinking is also a useful thing. Maybe even the most useful of all others. In my opinion, every person should think for half an hour a day. This can be done everywhere - sitting at the table, walking in the forest, alone or in company.

I became a writer almost by accident. I wanted to be a violinist, and I studied the violin for several years. But since 1943 I have not touched it anymore. The violin has been with me ever since. I'm always planning to add strings that are missing, fix a broken neck, buy a new bow to replace the old one, which is completely disheveled, and start the exercises again from the first position. Maybe I'll do it someday, but I don't have time yet. I would also like to be an artist. True, at school I always had bad grades in drawing, and yet I always really loved using a pencil and painting in oils. Unfortunately, at school we were forced to do such tedious things that they could make even a cow lose patience. In a word, like all the guys, I dreamed about a lot, but then I didn’t do much, but did what I least thought about.

However, without even knowing it, I spent a long time preparing for my writing career. For example, I became a school teacher. I don't think I was a very good teacher: I was too young and my thoughts were very far from my school desks. Perhaps I was a cheerful teacher. I told the kids various funny stories - stories without any meaning, and the more absurd they were, the more the children laughed. This already meant something. In the schools I know, I don't think they laugh much. Much that could be learned laughing is learned with tears - bitter and useless.

But let's not get distracted. Anyway, I have to tell you about this book. I hope she will be as happy as a toy. By the way, here is another activity that I would like to devote myself to: making toys. I always wanted toys to be unexpected, with a twist, so that they would suit everyone. Such toys last a long time and never get boring. Not knowing how to work with wood or metal, I tried to make toys from words. Toys, in my opinion, are as important as books: if it weren't, kids wouldn't love them. And since they love them, it means that toys teach them something that cannot be learned otherwise.

I would like the toys to serve both adults and little ones, so that the whole family, the whole class, together with the teacher can play with them. I would like my books to be the same. And this one too. She should help parents get closer to their children so that they can laugh and argue with her. I am pleased when some boy willingly listens to my stories. I rejoice even more when this story makes him want to talk, express his opinion, ask adults questions, demand that they answer.

My book is being published in the Soviet Union. I'm very pleased with this, because Soviet guys are excellent readers. I met many Soviet children in libraries, in schools, in the Palaces of Pioneers, in Houses of Culture - everywhere I visited. And now I’ll tell you where I’ve been: Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Alma-Ata, Simferopol, Artek, Yalta, Sevastopol, Krasnodar, Nalchik. In Artek I met guys from the Far North and Far East. They were all great book eaters. How great it is to know that a book, no matter how thick or thin it is, is printed not to lie somewhere in the dust on a display case or in a closet, but to be swallowed, eaten with excellent appetite, digested hundreds of thousands of guys.

Therefore, I thank all those who prepared this book, and those who, so to speak, will eat it. I hope you will like it.

Bon appetit!

Gianni Rodari

The fairy was an old lady, very well-bred and noble, almost a baroness.

They call me,” she sometimes muttered to herself, “simply Fairy, and I don’t protest: after all, you need to have leniency towards the ignorant. But I'm almost a baroness; decent people know this.

Yes, Signora Baroness,” the maid agreed.

I'm not a 100% Baroness, but I'm not so far short of her. And the difference is almost invisible. Is not it?

Unnoticed, Signora Baroness. And decent people don’t notice her...

It was just the first morning of the new year. All night long the Fairy and her maid traveled across the rooftops, delivering gifts. Their dresses were covered with snow and icicles.

“Light the stove,” said the Fairy, “you need to dry your clothes.” And put the broom in its place: now for a whole year you don’t have to think about flying from roof to roof, especially with such a north wind.

The maid put the broom back, grumbling:

Nice little thing - flying on a broom! This is in our time when airplanes were invented! I already caught a cold because of this.

“Prepare me a glass of flower infusion,” the Fairy ordered, putting on her glasses and sitting down in the old leather chair that stood in front of the desk.

“Right now, Baroness,” said the maid.

The fairy looked at her approvingly.

“She’s a little lazy,” thought the Fairy, “but she knows the rules of good manners and knows how to behave with the lady of my circle. I will promise her to increase her salary. In fact, of course, I won’t give her an increase, and there’s not enough money anyway.”

It must be said that the Fairy, for all her nobility, was rather stingy. Twice a year she promised the old maid an increase in wages, but limited herself to promises alone. The maid had long been tired of listening only to words; she wanted to hear the clink of coins. Once she even had the courage to tell the Baroness about this. But the Fairy was very indignant:

Coins and coins! - she said, sighing, “Ignorant people only think about money.” And how bad it is that you not only think, but also talk about it! Apparently, teaching you good manners is like feeding a donkey sugar.

The fairy sighed and buried herself in her books.

So, let's bring the balance. Things are not good this year, there is not enough money. Of course, everyone wants to receive good gifts from the Fairy, and when it comes to paying for them, everyone starts bargaining. Everyone tries to borrow money, promising to pay it back later, as if the Fairy were some kind of sausage maker. However, today there is nothing particularly to complain about: all the toys that were in the store have sold out, and now we will need to bring new ones from the warehouse.

She closed the book and began to print out the letters she found in her mailbox.

I knew it! - she spoke. - I risk getting pneumonia delivering my goods, and no gratitude! This one didn't want a wooden saber - give him a pistol! Does he know that the gun costs a thousand lire more? Another, imagine, wanted to get an airplane! His father is the doorman of the courier secretary of a lottery employee, and he only had three hundred lire to buy a gift. What could I give him for such pennies?

Gianni Rodari- famous Italian children's writer and journalist.

As a child, Gianni Rodari was sick a lot, but he worked hard - he learned to play the violin, wrote poetry, painted and dreamed of becoming a famous artist.

The boy's father was a brothel and died when his son was 10 years old. Difficult days have come for the family. To feed the family (Gianni had two more brothers, Cesare and Mario), her mother got a job as a maid in a rich house.

Gianni Rodari had to study at a theological seminary - there they not only taught the children of the poor, but also fed and clothed them for free.

After graduating from the seminary in 1937, he was forced to go to work. Rodari became a teacher in primary school and at the same time attended lectures at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Milan and was engaged in self-education.

Gianni Rodari liked to work with children, he came up with funny and educational stories for his students. His students built houses from letters, and together with the teacher they composed fairy tales.

During World War II, Rodari was released from service due to poor health. After the death of two close friends and the imprisonment of his brother Cesare in a concentration camp, he became involved in the Resistance Movement, and in 1944 he joined the Italian Communist Party.

In 1948, Rodari became a journalist for the communist newspaper L'Unita and began writing fairy tales for children. In 1950, the party appointed him editor of the newly created weekly magazine for children, Pioneer (Pioniere) in Rome.

In 1952, Gianni Rodari first came to the USSR, where he then visited several times.

In 1953, he married Maria Teresa Ferretti, and four years later they had a daughter, Paola.

In 1957, Rodari passed the exam to become a professional journalist, and in 1966-1969 he did not publish books and only worked on projects with children.

In 1970, the writer received the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Prize, which helped him gain worldwide fame.

After Pioneer, Rodari worked at the youth magazine Avangard, then he moved to the mass left-wing newspaper Paese Sera, where he worked as a literary employee until the end of his life.

Rodari wrote many different poems and such fairy tales: “The Adventures of the Blue Arrow” (1952), “Gelsomino in the Land of Liars” (1959), “Telephone Tales” (1961), “Cake in the Sky” (1966), etc.

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Birthday: 23.10.1920

Date of death: 04/14/1980 (59 years old)

Zodiac sign: Monkey, Libra ♎

Gianni Rodari (Italian Gianni Rodari, full name Giovanni Francesco Rodari, Italian Giovanni Francesco Rodari; October 23, 1920, Omegna, Italy - April 14, 1980, Rome, Italy) is a famous Italian children's writer and journalist.

Gianni Rodari was born on October 23, 1920 in the small town of Omegna (Northern Italy). His father Giuseppe, a baker by profession, died when Gianni was only ten years old. Gianni and his two brothers, Cesare and Mario, grew up in their mother's native village of Varesotto. Sick and weak since childhood, the boy was fond of music (he took violin lessons) and books (he read Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky). After three years of study at the seminary, Rodari received a teaching diploma and at the age of 17 began teaching in the primary classes of local rural schools. In 1939, he briefly attended the Faculty of Philology of the Catholic University in Milan.

During World War II, Rodari was released from service due to poor health. After the death of two close friends and the imprisonment of his brother in a concentration camp, Cesare became involved in the Resistance Movement and in 1944 joined the Italian Communist Party.

In 1948, Rodari became a journalist for the communist newspaper L'Unita and began writing books for children. In 1950, the party appointed him editor of the newly created weekly magazine for children, Il Pioniere, in Rome. In 1951, Rodari published his first collection of poems, “The Book of Funny Poems,” as well as his most famous work, “The Adventures of Cipollino” (the Russian translation by Zlata Potapova, edited by Samuil Marshak, was published in 1953). This work gained especially wide popularity in the USSR, where it was made into a cartoon in 1961, and then a fairy tale film “Cipollino” in 1973, where Gianni Rodari starred as himself.

In 1952, he went to the USSR for the first time, where he then visited several times. In 1953, he married Maria Teresa Ferretti, who four years later gave birth to his daughter, Paola. In 1957, Rodari passed the exam to become a professional journalist, and in 1966-1969 he did not publish books and only worked on projects with children.

In 1970, the writer received the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Prize, which helped him gain worldwide fame.

He also wrote poems that reached the Russian reader in translations by Samuil Marshak (for example, “What do crafts smell like?”) and Yakov Akim (for example, “Giovannino-Lose”). A large number of translations of books into Russian were carried out by Irina Konstantinova.

Family
Father - Giuseppe Rodari (Italian: Giuseppe Rodari).
Mother - Maddalena Ariocchi (Italian: Maddalena Ariocchi).
The first brother is Mario Rodari (Italian: Mario Rodari).
The second brother is Cesare Rodari (Italian: Cesare Rodari).
Wife - Maria Teresa Ferretti (Italian: Maria Teresa Ferretti).
Daughter - Paola Rodari (Italian: Paola Rodari).

Selected works

Collection “Book of Funny Poems” (Il libro delle filastrocche, 1950)
“Admonition to the Pioneer”, (Il manuale del Pionere, 1951)
"The Adventures of Cipollino" (Il Romanzo di Cipollino, 1951; released in 1957 under the title Le avventure di Cipollino)
Collection of poems "Train of Poems" (Il treno delle filastrocche, 1952)
"Gelsomino in the Land of Liars" (Gelsomino nel paese dei bugiardi, 1959)
Collection “Poems in Heaven and on Earth” (Filastrocche in cielo e in terra, 1960)
Collection “Tales by Telephone” (Favole al telefono, 1960)
"Jeep on TV" (Gip nel televisore, 1962)
“Planet of Christmas Trees” (Il pianeta degli alberi di Natale, 1962)
"The Voyage of the Blue Arrow" (La freccia azzurra, 1964)
“What mistakes happen” (Il libro degli errori, Torino, Einaudi, 1964)
Collection “Cake in the Sky” (La Torta in cielo, 1966)
“How Giovannino, nicknamed the Idler, Traveled” (I viaggi di Giovannino Perdigiorno, 1973)
"The Grammar of Fantasy" (La Grammatica della fantasia, 1973)
“Once Upon a Time There Was Twice Baron Lamberto” (C’era due volte il barone Lamberto, 1978)
"Vagabonds" (Piccoli vagabondi, 1981)

Selected stories

"Accountant and Bora"
"Guidoberto and the Etruscans"
"Ice Cream Palace"
"Ten Kilograms of the Moon"
“How Giovannino touched the king’s nose”
"Elevator to the Stars"
"Magicians at the Stadium"
"Miss Universe with dark green eyes"
"The Robot Who Wanted to Sleep"
"Sakala, pakala"
"Runaway Nose"
"Sirenide"
"The Man Who Bought Stockholm"
"The Man Who Wanted to Steal the Colosseum"
A series of stories about twins Marko and Mirko

Filmography
Animation

"The Boy from Naples" - animated film (1958)
"Cipollino" - animated film (1961)
"Abstract Giovanni" - animated film (1969)
"Journey of the Blue Arrow" - animated film (1996

Feature cinema

"Cake in the Sky" - feature film (1970)
"Cipollino" - feature film (1973)
“The Magic Voice of Gelsomino” - feature film (1977)

Asteroid 2703 Rodari, discovered in 1979, is named after the writer.

October 23 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Italian writer and journalist Gianni Rodari.

Italian writer and journalist Gianni Rodari was born on October 23, 1920 in the town of Omegna in northern Italy. The boy's father, Giuseppe Rodari, was a baker - the owner of a small bakery and a bakery and food store.

As a child, Gianni Rodari was sick a lot and was a very weak child. Despite this, he learned to play the violin, wrote poetry, enjoyed drawing and dreamed of becoming a famous artist. When the boy was 9 years old, his father died. Difficult days have come for the family. To feed the family (Gianni had two more brothers - Cesare and Mario), his mother got a job as a maid in a rich house.

Gianni Rodari had to study at a theological seminary - there they not only taught the children of the poor, but also fed and clothed them for free.

After graduating from the seminary in 1937, he was forced to go to work to help his family. Rodari became a teacher in primary school and at the same time attended lectures at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Milan, read literature on philosophy and social science - Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Trotsky, Lenin.

After Pioneer, Rodari worked in the youth magazine Avangard, then he moved to the mass left-wing newspaper Paese Sera, where he worked as a literary employee until the end of his life. His feuilletons appeared on its pages almost daily. He was also published in various Italian publications and hosted a children's radio column.

Over three decades of literary work, Gianni Rodari published more than a dozen books for children - in poetry and prose. Rodari’s poems (collections “Book of Merry Poems”, 1951; “Train of Poems”, 1952; “Poems in Heaven and on Earth”, 1960; etc.) showed the writer’s ability to reveal the complexity and significance of the world in a familiar and small phenomenon.

Rodari's tales are very interesting and informative. The most famous of them is the fairy tale story “The Adventures of Cipollino” (1951, Russian translation by Marshak was published in 1953) about the onion boy and his friends. The heroes of this fairy tale live in a fantasy country inhabited by vegetable men and fruit men. A fairy tale constantly combines reality and fiction. The author made it a rule: while entertaining, talk about serious things. Cheerful, never discouraged, Cipollino defends the poor, fights for justice, and speaks out against cruelty and evil.

The work gained especially wide popularity in the USSR, where it was adapted into a cartoon (1961), and then the film fairy tale "Cipollino" (1973), where Gianni Rodari starred in a cameo role.

Rodari wrote several more fairy tales: “The Adventures of the Blue Arrow” (1952), “Gelsomino in the Land of Liars” (1959), “Telephone Tales” (1961), “Cake in the Sky” (1966), etc.

The only book that the author addressed to adults, but which, as he joked, many children read “by mistake,” was “The Grammar of Fantasy” with the subtitle “An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories.” In this book, Rodari tries to teach adults to come up with entertaining stories in order to awaken the imagination of their children, to help them develop such a valuable quality for a person.

In Italy, Gianni Rodari remained unknown as a writer for a long time, and he perceived himself only as a journalist. His name became popular primarily due to numerous translations into Russian. The best translations of Rodari's poems belong to Samuil Marshak. Only after “The Adventures of Cipollino” were translated into Russian in 1953, did the triumphant march of Gianni Rodari’s works throughout the world begin. Over time, in the writer’s homeland, Italy, Rodari’s poems and fairy tales began to be included in school textbooks.

The writer gained fame, millions of copies of books, high literary titles and awards. For the book "Cake in the Sky" Gianni Rodari received a pan-European prize and a gold medal. “Jeep on TV” and “Book of Errors” received high awards. In 1967 he was recognized as the best writer in Italy. And in 1970, for the totality of all the works of Gianni Rodari, the International Hans Christian Andersen Gold Medal was awarded - the highest award in children's literature.

The material was prepared based on information from open sources.

Giani Rodari (1920-1980) - Italian children's poet and writer, journalist and storyteller.

Childhood

Gianni was born on October 23, 1920 in the small town of Omegna, located in northern Italy. The writer's real full name is Giovanni Francesco Rodari. His dad, Giuseppe Rodari, worked as a baker; he died early when Gianni was only 10 years old. The family was poor, the father’s salary was not enough, and the mother, Maddalena Ariochi, worked as a maid in rich houses.

Two more sons grew up in the family - Mario and Cesare. After the death of their father, the mother and three children returned to their native village of Varesotto, where the boys spent their childhood.

From an early age, Gianni grew up as a sickly and weakened child. He liked music very much, he even took several violin lessons. But he loved books even more. True, the boy read far from children's literature: the works of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, the works of Lenin and Trotsky.

Despite poverty, Gianni grew up as a talented and kind boy. He was an incredible dreamer, constantly dreaming and believing in the best. Perhaps this is what made him a writer - the best friend of children all over the world.

Study, work, war

Gianni went to study at a seminary for the poor; in addition to training, they also provided food and clothing. After studying for three years, the young man received a diploma as a primary school teacher and began teaching at a local rural educational institution. He was only 17 years old at that time. Later he said to himself: “I wasn’t much of a teacher, but the kids didn’t get bored in my lessons.”.

When he was 19 years old, Gianni went to Milan, where he attended lectures at the Faculty of Philology at the Catalan University. At the same time, he became a member of the fascist youth organization “Italian Lictoral Youth”.

The young man was not drafted into World War II due to health reasons. From 1941 to 1943 he again worked as a primary school teacher and was a member of the Fascist Party. But at the end of 1943, after Germany occupied Italy, Cesare's brother ended up in a fascist concentration camp, and his two best friends died at the hands of the Germans, Gianni joined the Resistance Movement, and in 1944 he was accepted into the Italian Communist Party.

Literary and journalistic activities

In 1948, Gianni began working as a journalist at the publishing house of the Italian communists, Unita, at the same time he became interested in writing children's books, which in the future became his main activity.

In 1950, a weekly children's magazine was created in Rome, and Gianni was appointed by the party to the position of editor-in-chief. In 1951, his works “The Book of Merry Poems” and “The Adventures of Cipollino” were published there.

His membership in the Communist Party helped popularize Rodari's books in the Soviet Union. In 1953, Soviet children could already read the Russian translation of “The Adventures of Cipollino”, in 1961 a cartoon was made based on the work, and in 1973 the feature fairy tale film “Cipollino” was released, where the author himself, Italian Gianni Rodari, played, he starred in roles of oneself.

In 1952, Gianni visited the Soviet Union for the first time, then he visited this country several times.

In 1957, Rodari passed the exams and received the title of professional journalist. But he did not stop writing for children; one after another, his collections of poems and stories were published:

• "Train of Poems";
• "Poems in Heaven and on Earth";
• "Tales on the Phone";
• "Cake in the sky"

His works, which have been filmed, are very popular in our country:

• “Gelsomino in the Land of Liars” (film “The Magic Voice of Gelsomino”);
• "The Journey of the Blue Arrow" (the film "Blue Arrow").

And also a poem that every Soviet schoolchild probably knew - “What do crafts smell like?”

In 1970, the writer was awarded the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Prize, thanks to which Gianni Rodari was recognized by the whole world. Upon receiving the award he said: “A fairy tale gives us the key with which we can enter reality in other ways”.

With his fairy tales, Rodari taught children not only to understand the world, but also to transform it: to overcome grief and injustice, in difficult situations to still believe in light and goodness.

Personal life

In 1953, Gianni married Maria Teresa Ferretti. Four years later, the couple had a girl, Paola.

Once on a trip to the USSR, Gianni took his little daughter with him, they walked past the windows of Soviet stores and in one of them they recognized Signor Tomato, Cherry, Cipollino, Prince Lemon. He stopped in front of this toy store, completely happy, because his childhood dream had come true: the heroes of his works became children's friends.

At the end of the 70s, Gianni Rodari became seriously ill and underwent surgery, but it was unsuccessful. The writer died on April 14, 1980 in Rome, he was buried in the Verano cemetery.