UNDER THE SHADOM OF THE BAOBA TREE
(Na sombra do baobá)

Stela Barbieri
Ilustrações Fernando Vilela
Publisher: Escala Educacional, 2008
Size 18 x 20cm ,
Paperback: 48 pages
ISBN 978-85-377-0808-8

In a very distant place, there was a woman who wished to have a son. Everyday she would go to a nearby baoba tree to make her prayers, pledging to the gods to help her have the kid she wanted so much. Once, desperate, she shouted: “May the Gods send me a son even if he were as small as this baoba seed!” Nine months went by and the woman gave birth to a tiny little baby. From that day on, feeding and taking care of him was a great and awfully demanding challenge, which she carried out with all her efforts and the assistance of the people from that place.
This book is part of the Project Ways of Changing the World, based on the 8 Millennium Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. The fourth Goal, “Reduce Child Mortality”, motivated Under the shadow of the Baoba Tree.