My tree is the orange tree - Maskelliani for publishing

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 a bird singing in his heart? "My tree, the wonderful orange tree" by the writer Jose 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 spoken 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 steals a flower every morning from a wealthy person's garden for his teacher... and he asks with utmost innocence: Did God not give flowers to all people?