Another collaboration with Francesca Quatraro (you can tell which is my favorite illustrator?), Yet a story published by UnDueTreStella number in "Through the Looking Glass" .
Buonalettura.
Tonino and the magic mirror
Tonino was bored.
For some 'games of other children made him yawn and his puppets do not invent more new adventures. Ugh had become his favorite word. Then he left to seek his fortune as those of fairy tales.
met an old woman with two heavy bags of expenditure.
-Young man help me and you will not regret, he said. He took a bag and followed her.
The old house was small and dark but had a good smell. Without realizing Tonino slept on a sofa. When he opened his eyes it was evening and the old woman was cooking.
-Eat something and you're here, tonight, you can start tomorrow.
After dinner, he made him a hot chocolate and said, "Take this mirror will help you in times of need like you did with me.
Toni looked at the mirror, did not look anything special but he was polite and thanked him a child.
The next morning he departed with a mirror and a piece of cake in his pocket.
walked through a forest when he found himself in a clearing surrounded by a wall of trees. On one sat a giant boulder. Four meters high, taller than an elephant, he slept. Toni came but that opened two terrible eyes, jumped up and threw himself to the child. Toni began to run around to escape, then remembered the mirror and froze. The giant, surprised, stopped. Tonino's points against the mirror, but nothing happened, then We looked inside to see what was wrong and poof gone.
giant scratched his head, spun around, but the flea child was not anywhere. He picked up the mirror and looked.
Tonino saw the face of the giant that was approaching and he knew he was in the mirror. In the eyes of the giant that was reflected saw the reason for his anger: no one had ever kissed.
giant thought of not being so bad and wondered why no one had ever kissed him and was about to beat the mirror against the rock when the child jumped off the glass giving it a little kiss on her big nose. The giant became all red and ran opening a passage between the trees.
Toni took the mirror and followed the path opened by the giant in the woods on the run. The forest ended in a desert of black earth. From the top of a dune Toni saw a castle was there that he must go. He began the descent, but was only half that he heard a roar. He looked around and saw nothing. Four more steps and the roar back. He also felt a strange smell, a mixture of pork, chicken and wet dog. When the roar was just behind Toni disappeared in the mirror. He spent a few seconds, then, from his hiding place magical, Toni saw a dragon. Only from there could see it because the dragon is perfectly camouflaged. Precisely for this reason it was bad that she would not take the color of things around him. He wanted to have its color, it was blue, green, yellow, even pink, but it had to be her. And then nobody ever saw his tail and trampled. Do not take it anymore and ate them all.
Tonino fumbled in his pocket, remember we have placed a red marker, and in fact here it is. In a moment he was out of the mirror and clip the pen behind the ear of the dragon that became red hot, beautiful. The dragon flew away excited, but not to control Take the color of the sky.
The castle was surrounded by a moat with no bridge. Tonino hoped that the mirror had a solution. From the mirror he saw a hallway lit by torches and a door at the bottom. He reached out to open it and found himself in the hallway. The door opened without difficulty, but as soon as he crossed the threshold of suspicion is closed with a thud. He was in a dark room. The sound of footsteps. Silence. A flame and a few inches from his face was a witch. He ran to the door but that would not open. Behind him, the witch grinned and licked his lips. -How nice snack- he said and put out the flame. Toni could not look in the mirror if everything was dark. Here, he thought, my luck will be the belly of a witch. It already felt icy hands closer to his neck when he saw that filtered a bit 'light under the door. He kicked the witch, she put the mirror in the light and disappeared. From inside the mirror he was all clear. That was not a witch but a girl who was bored by too many years. He was bored so much as to become old, ugly and nasty. But Toni knew what he needed. He went out from the mirror and took her hand: "Do you want to be my friend? - The churches. The witch smiled and immediately returned children, squeezed his hand and answered, "Yes.
Tonino The girl brought in the hall of the castle and there were the red dragon and the giant so that waiting for them to start playing. They played and played and when they were tired, they sat at a table and began to imagine the many adventures that awaited them.
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