Read and listen to the nursery rhyme "alla befana" by Gianni Rodari

Hey! I tell you that you still have your nose pointed at the moon, waiting for the Epiphany!

Don't worry: it's coming, it's coming for all the good girls and boys! And not.

Let's read together:

They told me, dear Befana,
that you fill the stocking with wool,
that all the children, if they are good,
from you they receive rich gifts.

I've always been good
but you never brought me a gift.

Also this year in the calendar
you come right on time,
but I'm scared, poor fellow,
that you travel by direct train:
a train that skips many stations
where there are good children.

I sent you this letter
to make you take the accelerated!

O dear Befana, take a little train
that you stop at every child's house,
that stop at the houses of the poor
with many gifts and many sugared almonds.

Giovanni Francesco Rodari, known as Gianni (pronounced /roˈdari/; Omegna, 23 October 1920 - Rome, 14 April 1980), was oneItalian writer, educator, journalist and poet, specialized inchildren's literature and translated into many languages. The only Italian writer to have won the prestigious