Read and Listen to Gianni Rodari’s Rhyme “It is Cold”
Let’s Read Together
Italy below zero.
The Boot has frozen solid.
Snow rests on the mountains
like cream on ice cream.
The cats of the Colosseum,
in Rome, are chattering their teeth.
People are skating on the Po
and its major tributaries.
The tail of a donkey
in Potenza is frozen.
The gondolas of Venice
are in bed with the flu.
A compassionate mountaineer
has left Turin
to place a cap
upon the peak of the Matterhorn (Cervino).
But where is, where is the magician
with the enchanted torch
to bring into every house
a warm flame?
Let’s Listen Together
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