Little Mattia and his journey in the time machine

By Giorgio Aldo Maccaroni

Introduction
It is Christmas Eve. Mattia, a small boy of eight years old, is ill in bed with influenza and waiting to celebrate the festivity with his parents and relatives. After dinner Mattia returns to his bed, and before falling asleep listens to his father tell him a story. It is all about Andrew, a boy of his own age who lived one hundred years before him. Andrew suffers from an incurable illness. To get better he would need penicillin which did not exist then.
Mattia listens to the interesting story and feels sorry for such an unfortunate little boy, not only because his life is at risk, but also because he and his family have been abandoned by his father.
Seeing him suddenly overcome with fatigue, Mattia’s father decides to let him sleep. Then, just as he is about to fall asleep, Father Christmas appears. He invites him on a journey back through time so that he can take the little boy the medicine he needs to get better.
Mattia accepts Father Christmas’s suggestion and, thanks to his sleigh pulled through the sky by the reindeer, Mattia travels one hundred years back in time.
Father Christmas then says goodbye to him, promising to return the following Christmas, one year later.
And this is how Mattia begins his adventure in time....

• Language: English
• Publisher: G. Maccaroni
• Release date: Jul 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9788890633201

Giorgio Aldo Maccaroni

GIORGIO ALDO MACCARONI, born in Rome in 1969, is a lawyer and President of Italian advocacy for the rights of families. Formerly an Honorary Magistrate, he is actively involved as defending counsel in problems concerning minors and their families. He acted as coordinator of the prescriptive section of the committee for the drafting of aself-regulation code regarding minors and internet, set up within the Ministry of Communications. As a member of the commission for the protection of children in television, he was involved in the drafting of the respective self-regulation code. Teacher at the master's degree for lawyers in family law and juvenile. He is journalist, author of several publications on legal, has published a book entitled "as brothers - the story of an adoption special." He has appeared as guest in television and radio programmes, he has been involved in parliamentary legislative initiatives.