The Hedgehog tree

  Dear friends

We are painting the walls of Antonio Gramsci Primary School. Look at the picture! The mural  is about "The hedgehog tree",  a very interesting  fairy tale . Antonio Gramsci, the writer, was imprisoned during Mussolini era and in prison he wrote a lot of letters to his children Delio and Giuliano.   Gramsci  wanted  to  stimulate and develop their intellects and imagination . He set them reading lists, swapped information about whales and elephants, wrote them bedtime stories and told them tales of his own childhood."One autumn evening, it was already dark, but the countryside lay bathed in moonlight. I went with another boy into an orchard full of fruit trees," he wrote to Delio in 1932. "We hid in a bush, facing the wind. All of a sudden, the hedgehogs came out of their holes. There were five of them, two big ones and three little ones. They made their way in single file towards the apple trees, rambled about in the grass for a while and then got down to work........." 

Now it's time to say goodbye!!! 

Kisses

Apollo