My tree, the wonderful orange tree - Jose Mauro | Novel

My tree, the wonderful orange tree, is the first book in a series of translated novels by the Brazilian writer José Mauro de Vasconcelos about the child Ziza. This child whom everyone calls the little devil and describes as a cat of the gutters. Who is this child whom everyone calls the little devil and describes as a cat of the gutters? And what kind of child is this who carries a singing bird in his heart? The book My tree, the wonderful orange tree, by the writer José Mauro de Vasconcelos is a work studied in Brazilian schools and recommended by teachers in French institutes for their students to read. It is an emotional and humane work narrated by a child poet who is not more than five years old. A work that does not tell a fairy tale or only the dreams of children in Brazil, but also narrates the writer’s adventures in his childhood, adventures of the child who learned to read at the age of four without a teacher, the child who carries a bird in his heart and a devil in his head whispering ideas that lead him into trouble with adults. This is a sweet novel, as sweet as the sap of a sweet orange fruit... A humane novel describing the innocence that a child's heart can carry, and introducing us to the innate spirit of the poet... the story of a child who carries the blood of Brazil’s indigenous people, a child who every morning steals a flower from the garden of a wealthy person for his teacher, and wonders with utmost innocence: Did God not give flowers to all people?