The Fantasy Optician

4 hrs. 11 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Marcello Argilli

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

Once, a young Italian lawyer Marcello Arigilli met at the office of some Roman newspaper a journalist named Gianni Rodari—and at that very moment Italy lost a good lawyer, but gained an excellent storyteller. After the dizzying success of "Chipollino," Arigilli also decided to write for children. He started with short funny stories and screenplays for cartoons, and then moved on to scripts for children’s TV shows. By the way, in one of those shows he and Rodari even appeared as presenters.

Later, Arigilli wrote some of his best-known books, for example "Multicolored Fairy Tales," "Holidays with Dad," "Marta Is Already an Adult," "How People Live in the Republic of Mali," "Ciao, Andrea!"—and became a recognized classic of children’s literature in Italy.

Today, Marcello Arigilli is known and loved by children and adults throughout Italy, and also by children and adults from eighteen other countries where his fairy tales have been translated.

Now the book by this wonderful inventor, "The Fantastic Oculist," will also exist in Russian.

Contents:

Fair tales about tick-tock, about the alphabet, and much more
- Gianni’s Clock
- The Eighth Day of the Week
- Time Has Come to an End
- What the Clocks Dreamed Of
- Remedies for Boredom
- Another 100 Years
- I’ll Buy on Favorable Terms
- The Girl Who Gifted Time
- The Strict and Fair Judge
- Lost Time
- How the Vowels Went on Strike
- Abbreviations
- The Country Turned Upside Down
- Miss Letter
- The Impossible Invention
- Please Remind Me
- The Seller of Lies
- Unusual Collectors
- The Fantastic Oculist
- The Man Who Caught Dreams
- A Connoisseur of Colors
- The Man Who Photographed Music
- The Doctor Who Treated Clocks
- Home Helpers
- The Sleepy Telescope
- Aster and Grass
- The New Life Hospital
- A Clinic for Football Players
- And Is It Impossible to Make an Exception?
- the Wonderful Surgeon with One Flaw
- The White Hospital Color
- Any Help on the Spot

Unusual fairy tales
- The simplest conveniences
- A fairy tale that didn’t want to be told
- The most shadowy country in the world
- A fairy tale about something
- An unusual fairy tale with an extraordinary character
- One more unusual fairy tale
- A fairy tale with flaws
- A fairy tale about a country where people walk upside down
- A fairy tale that lost words
- A rushed fairy tale
- The girl who loved fairy tales very much
- A happy challenge
- Really?
- Fairy-tale taxes
- Everything is forbidden
- A shelter for fairy tales
- A jester

Fair tales about artists, as well as about colors
- The artist who didn’t remember colors
- Unprecedented colors
- Changeable sky
- The artist who never drew
- Canvas
- Watercolors
- Different brushes
- A Yellow Fairy Tale
- A colorful circus
- What color are feelings?
- A game of hide and seek
- What color are words?
- A celebration
- Why do people have skin of different colors?
- What does skin look like?
- Which color is prettier?
- Pastels
- The color of the sea
- It doesn’t seem that scary, after all
- A dull duo