The actual title of the original book is _Cuore_, which is Italian for "heart." ("Corazon" is Spanish.) Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) wrote the book as if a diary of a young boy's school year in Torino (Turin), a city in the northern part of newly unified Italy. It was published on October 17, 1886, which was literally the first day of school for that year.
Review of Heart of a Child
