<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/students-explore-the-whimsical-world-of-gianni-rodari.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>03/08/2021</pubDate><title>Students Explore the Whimsical World of Gianni Rodari</title><description>Every night, traveling salesman Signor Bianchi calls his daughter from a pay phone to tell her a bedtime story. Each story must be told in the time that a single coin will buy. Four Franklin &amp; Marshall College students will recount these whimsical tales in an upcoming theatrical reading to celebrate the centennial of Italian author Gianni Rodari's birth.</description><author>Kim O'Brien</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/181592355791463670-img-0715.0.53.1125.1125.full.jpg" alt="Lily Noble"/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Hebrew</tag><tag>Italian and Italian Studies</tag><tag>Theatre</tag><tag>Writers House</tag></tags></item>