My Sweet Orange Tree by José Mauro de Vasconcelos by DE VASCONCELOS, JOSÉ MAURO

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A WORLDWIDE CLASSIC OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: a moving, life-affirming story of a mischevious boy from Brazil and the power of kindness and imagination. Meet Zezé - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he 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 neighborhood and inventing friends to play with. Zezé’s pranks can be a li