My tree, the wonderful orange tree - Jose Mauro

Who is this child whom everyone calls the little devil and describes as the cat of the gutters? And what child is this who carries in his heart a singing bird? "My tree, the wonderful orange tree" by writer Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos, a work studied in Brazilian schools and recommended by teachers in French institutes for their students to read... It is an emotional and human 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 recounts the writer's adventures in his childhood, adventures of a child who learned to read at the age of four without a teacher, a child who carries in his heart a bird and in his head a devil whispering ideas that land him in trouble with adults... This is a sweet novel, as sweet as the sap of a sweet orange fruit... A human novel that describes the innocence a child's heart can carry, and introduces 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 he asks with utmost innocence: Did God not give flowers to all people? Book information Genre: Novel Number of pages: 245 Author: Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos Publisher: Dar Maskelyani