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Nursery rhymes and stories in the name of error: distracted pupils, boring professors, athletes who are not up to date with their spelling … often “mistakes – said Gianni Rodari – are not in words, but in things; we must correct the dictates, but above all we must correct the world”. This book takes us into a broken down and disordered linguistic universe, but it is not a text of boring grammatical exercises because the magical Gianni Rodari gives rise to laughter from every oversight, changes the rules of our grammar at stake, opens a dense and very rich dialogue with the readers.


Gianni Rodari was a teacher a journalist. Starting in the 1950s, he began to publish his works for children, which immediately achieved enormous success, countless translations and deserved various awards, including, in 1970, the prestigious «Hans Christian Andersen» award.

Bruno Munari, worldwide renown artist and designer, has gone through the most important artistic avant-gardes of the twentieth century.

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