My tree, the magnificent orange tree

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Who is this child whom everyone calls the little devil and describes as a gutter cat? And what kind of child is this who carries a singing bird in his heart?

"My Sweet Orange Tree" by José Mauro de Vasconcelos is a work studied in Brazilian schools and recommended by professors in French institutes to their students... It is a moving and humane work told from the perspective of a child poet who is no more than five years old... A work that does not only tell a fairy tale or the dreams of children in Brazil, but also tells the adventures of the writer in his childhood, the 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 who whispers to him ideas that get him into trouble with adults... This is a novel as sweet as the sap of a sweet orange fruit... A humane novel that describes the innocence that a child's heart can hold, and introduces us to the poet's innate spirit... The story of a child who carries the blood of the indigenous people of Brazil, a child who steals a flower every morning from the garden of a wealthy person for his teacher... and he asks with utter innocence: Didn't God give flowers to all people?