Francesca e L' Aquilone

... Francesca is a young girl who recently moved from Italy to Dartford. She is ten years old. She speaks only Italian and not a word of English. 

Her only friend is her kite. She brought it from Italy, l’Aquilone. It is a true companion. 

Every day after school Francesca walks to Dartford Marshes to fly her kite...

...They start walking toward Central Park. It is crowded with people. Mums with a lot of young children. Granddads with dogs. Old ladies with flowery dresses. And music. There is music coming from the bandstand...

But this is no ordinary land explain her friend to her ... 

... With few flaps of their giant wings they are up in the sky in a blink of an eye and Francesca is pulled up above the clouds. Her friend is next to her holding her hand.

She can see the village becoming smaller and smaller and the stream of the river Darenth flowing across the green hills like a mark sketched with a brown-blue pen.