MY SWEET ORANGE TREE
Meet Zezé - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up, Zezé wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change
My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature - never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to Turkey, Poland to Thailand and in many other countries too.
Edad recomendada: A partir de 8 años.
DE VASCONCELOS JOSE MAURO
José Mauro de Vasconcelos 1920-1984 fue un escritor, periodista y actor brasileño, aclamado por su literatura de corte autobiográfico y social. Su obra cumbre, Mi planta de naranja lima 1968 , es un clásico de la literatura latinoamericana que narra la dolorosa infancia del pequeño Zezé, un éxito editorial traducido a múltiples idiomas y adaptado al cine y la televisión. El autor continuó esta historia en la secuela Vamos a calentar el sol. Entre sus títulos destacados también figuran Rosinha, mi canoa y Corazón de vidrio, caracterizados por su profunda sensibilidad hacia la pobreza y la naturaleza.
