The Mighty Oak Family

A novel that will make your kids passionate about reading, an adventurous journey through woods and forests in which every encounter turns into a life lesson. Between the lines, and woven into the scented air of the woods, there will be brotherhood, danger, courage, faith, first love and so much more. An ageless tale that speaks with simplicity to people's heart, awakening feelings that lay dormant, buried by everyday's tired, rushed routine.

Vito Antonio LEO

I was born in August, in the very heart of Salento (Puglia/Italy). At fifteen I had something to say, so I wrote a short novel. Then I had nothing more to say for thirty years. At forty-five I discovered happiness: I became a father. My soul spread its wings: I had something to say again.

The protagonist leads us by the hand inside his childhood, at a time when his everyday life is disrupted by the outbreak of World War I, and the subsequent call of his beloved dad to the front lines.

Only the optimism and stubborness of his young age (he is eleven years old) will allow him to overcome the distance and the obstacles that separate them: we are thus lead on an remarkable journey through woods and forests, in which every encounter becomes an invaluable life lesson for Luigino and the eight orphans who will share his fate. Between the lines, and woven into the scented air of the woods, they will find brotherhood, evil, fear, courage, faith and the sweetness of first love, propelling them into a new life with an open soul, filled with understanding and serenity. A novel that speaks with simplicity to the heart of young and old alike, awakening deep, soulful feelings numbed by the rush of everyday's life.