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Anytime – A day in the life of a child living in a Brazilian village
Cassio’s Day: From Dusk to Dawn in a Brazilian Village
What you need to know before your trail
This is just one in a series of books published in association with Oxfam to show you a day in the life of a child in various places around the world. In a series of photographs, we see each child’s world through their eyes.
Cassio is six and lives in a small village in Brazil called Maria de Fe which is in the province of Minas Gerais. He lives there with his family and they live off the land. The author explains that she found village life there extra special as it shows a part of Brazil unaffected by technology and city life.
Travel Guide
Maria da Fé, in Minas Gerais is an especially good place to be a child we are told in the author’s note. Cassio and his friends can play in the open air, with the mountains behind them and the waterfalls dotted all around. They are “as free as birds” and life a simpler, less complicated life than people living in big cities.
Cassio for example might do the same as any other child such as going to schools and playing with friends, but it’s the way he does them in his village that is the most interesting insight into a child’s life. Where else could you watch someone make cheese or a basket as part of your everyday?
School days are spent largely outside where they grow their own vegetables and push each other around in the carrinho or “barrow”. His father is a mini bus driver who takes students to nearby Itajuba, the nearby town. His mother is an evening class teacher.
Religion plays a large part in their lives and fresh food prepared daily is too. They always make too much incase friends stop over.
Whilst all this is going on, there are notes on Brazil’s past and how the country and its regions have grown into what they are today.
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
Sometimes seeing things through the eyes of a child shows you the very essence of life. I love these books for their simplicity and fun facts – it;s what you want to know – how do other people like you live in other countries? It’s something that has always fascinated me and was the reason I wanted to know several languages. There’s a short guide to Portuguese in the book as well which really puts the cherry on the whole cake for me! or the Pano de Queijo which I really want to eat now.
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