Selection - FNLIJ

Uma ilha chamada livro: contos mínimos
sobre ler, escrever e contar
Heloísa Seixas. Record. 109p. ISBN 9788501081230
The author gathers in this book tales published along
10 years on newspapers from São Paulo and Rio de
Janeiro. Love to books is the common subject as well as
love to authors and literature. It is an inspired manual
on writing.
Joaquim e Maria e a estátua de Machado de Assis
Luciana Sandroni. Illustrations by Spacca. Companhia das
Letrinhas. 182p. ISBN 9788574063669
Renowned author Luciana Sandroni dedicates this new book
to Machado de Assis, one of the most important Brazilian
writers on the year that Brazil celebrates 100 years of his death.
Machado de Assis was responsible for founding the Brazilian
Academy. The story that goes through the main facts from
the life of the author takes place in Rio de Janeiro and has a
statue as the main character. The author presents to the young
readers, in a very straightforward way, the life and work of this
great Brazilian writer. Sandroni has already published Minhas
memórias de Lobato and O Mário que não era de Andrade,
dedicated to the writers Monteiro Lobato and Mario de
Andrade, respectively.
O livro de Ana
Bartolomeu Campos Queirós. Illustrations by
Marconi Drummond. Global. 32p.
ISBN 9788526013537
Acording to Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós,
award-winning writer, winner of the IV SM
Ibero-American Children Literature Award and
nominated for the 2010 IBBY Hans Christian
Andersen Award the first sculpture of Saint Ann
appear in Brittany, France, in the 8 th Century. Since that period the devotion to Saint
Ann scattered throughout the world. In a poetic prose the author tells what he thinks is
written on the book the Saint has on its hands. The woman reads and a chlild listens to
it. The author weaves a sensitive story on the creation of the world, and the work of the
creator for seven days.
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fiction for young people