Selection - FNLIJ

Contos de irmãos: histórias de coragem,
aventura e astúcia
Ana Carolina Carvalho. Illustrations by Eduardo Albini.
Moderna. 55p. ISBN 9788516062330
Two brothers were left by their father in the Peruvian jungle,
and two others have to follow the clues left by their mother
along the way as well as in the middle of a Portuguese forest
... Do these stories seem familiar? In this book, the reader will
travel through very similar stories, all of them about brothers
who will need to be united against different and dangerous
threats such as hunger, the cruelty of stepmothers and even
the greed of an emperor. With folk tales from different places
and cultures, the reader will learn a little more about the oral
tradition, thinking on similarities and differences present in the
plots of folk tales from Angola, Brazil, China, Italy, Siberia, Peru
and Portugal.
Dona Onça é muito sonsa: adaptações de três
contos populares
Text and illustrations by Maurício Veneza. Prumo. 23p.
ISBN 9788561618896
Dona Onça (Ms. Jaguar) is always willing to play the
smart to ensure its lunch. First, pretended to be dead to
attract the animals of the forest. Then, she planned a trap
to catch the monkey. And, finally, she tried to fool the cat.
Although her plans seem to work in the beginning, things
never go exactly as planned!
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Divinas desventuras: outras histórias da
mitologia grega
Heloisa Prieto. Illustrations by Maria Eugênia.
Companhia das Letrinhas. 46p. ISBN 9788574063614
Twelve years after having published the book Divinas
aventuras about eight figures from the Greek mythology,
the author presents this new book on eight tragic myths,
this time narrated by Cronus, the god of time and the
great master of wisdom. The reader will find the myths of
Taurus, Ariadne, Ícarus, Daphne, Asclepios, Prometheus,
Cassandra and Sisyphus.