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Let's read and listen to “The cosmic chick”

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Ciao amiche ed amici carissimi di Eugenio dalla vostra Francesca Ruberto

Today I read to you "The cosmic chick" taken from the book "Fables on the telephone" by Gianni Rodari

Let's read together:

Last year atEaster, in Professor Tibolla's house, fromchocolate eggdo you know what came out? Surprise: acosmic chick, similar in every way to terrestrial chicks, but with a captain's cap on his head and a television antenna on his cap.
The professor, Mrs. Luisa and the children all said together:
– Oh, and after that oh they found no more words.

Thefleahe looked around discontentedly.
– How behind are you on this planet, – he observed, – it is barely hereEaster; here, on Mars the Eighth, it's already Wednesday.
- Of this month? – asked Professor Tibolla.
– God forbid! Wednesday of the next month. But we are twenty-five years ahead.
Thecosmic chickhe took four steps up and down to stretch his legs, and muttered:
- That hassle! What a nuisance.
– What is worrying you? – asked Mrs. Luisa.

– You broke the flying egg and I won't be able to return to Mars the Eighth.
– But we bought the egg at the pastry shop.
– You don't know anything. This egg, in reality, is a spaceship, disguised asEaster Egg, and I am its commander, disguised asflea.
– And the crew?
– I'm also the crew. But now I will be degraded. They'll at least make me a colonel.
– Well, colonel is more than captain.
– From you, because you have the degrees backwards. In our country the highest rank is a simple citizen. But let's forget about it. My mission failed.

– We could tell her we're sorry, but we don't know what mission it was.
– Ah, I don't know either. I just had to wait in that window until our secret agent showed up.
– Interesting, – said the professor, – you also have secret agents on Earth. What if we went and told the police?

– But yes, you go around talking about acosmic chick, and you will be laughed at.
– This is also correct. So, while we're among us, tell us something more about those secret agents.
– They are tasked with identifying the Earthlings who will land on Mars Eighth in twenty-five years.
– It's quite funny. For now, we don't even know where Mars the Eighth is.

– You forget, dear professor, that. up there we are twenty-five years ahead of time. For example, we already know that the captain of the Earth spaceship that will arrive on Mars Eighth will be called Gino.
– Well, – said Professor Tibolla's eldest son, – just like me.

– Pure coincidence, – declared the cosmopulcino. – His name will be Gino and he will be thirty-three years old. So, right now, on Earth, he is exactly eight years old.
– Look, look, – said Gino, – just my age.

– Don't interrupt me all the time, – exclaimed the commander of the space egg sternly. – As I was explaining to you, we have to find this Gino and the other members of the future crew, to monitor them, without them realizing it, and to educate them properly.

- What what? – said the professor. – Maybe we don't educate our children well?
- Not so. First, don't get them used to the idea that they will have to travel among the stars; second, do not teach them that they are citizens of the universe; third, do not teach them that the word enemy, outside the Earth, does not exist; fourth…
– Excuse me, Commander, – Signora Luisa interrupted him, – what's the surname of that Gino of yours?
– Please, yours, not ours. Her name is Tibolla. Gino Tibolla.
- But it's me! – the professor's son jumped up. He shouts,
– Hurrah what? – exclaimed Mrs. Luisa. – You won't believe that your father and I will allow you…
– But the cosmic chick had already flown into Gino's arms.

– Hooray! Mission accomplished! In twenty-five years I too will be able to return home.
– And theegg? Gino's little sister asked with a sigh.
– But we eat it right away, of course.
And so it was done