"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading."
— Virginia Woolf
Who wrote and gave me this book was none other than my English student, Laudecy Ferreira. She writes her life story and what her and her family went through – always having faith and calling out to the famous Brazilian saint, Padre Cicero. She begins telling her hard life in the arid and rough countryside of Juazeiro do Norte. In search of better opportunities and a better quality of life her whole poor family travels to São Paulo where she gets a job as a teacher – something which was always her dream. After a few years they journey back to Ceará, but this time to Fortaleza. From there on the book is filled with many modified Brazilian nursery rhyme, traditional songs and short poems. It’s a cute book written for children with lots of lessons and morals and a lovely ending.
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