Books for children and young adults 2024 - Literatura

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Books for Children and Young Adults

2024

SUMMARY

Picturebooks Welcome

Ages 3 to 6

Ages 4 to 8

Wordless Picturebook

ILLUSTRATED FICTION AND NOVELS

Ages 3 to 6

Ages 4 to 8

Ages 8 and up

Ages 9 to 12

Tween

Comic books

Illustrations index

Contacts

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Welcome to the FTD Educação Catalogue 2024

We are delighted to share with you our Highlights 2024. This is a careful selection of our books, mixing releases, relevant themes, innovative projects and important authors.

More than ever, it is necessary to approach socio-emotional issues with our children and young adults. The works Be Brave, Mom!, Little Ants, As Important as a Piece of Tongue and Castor Seeds can contribute to this dialogue.

Climate change is urgent and books that address this topic are mandatory reading: The Oil Stain is Coming…, Beyond the Rain and the comic Mapinguari. Speaking of comic books, we have a rich selection of universal classics adapted as graphic novels, Romeo and Juliet and The Odyssey, as well as one Brazilian literature classic, Philosopher or Dog.

What about award-winning Brazilian authors? We also have those! The Valent Tailor, written by the icon of Brazilian literature

Ana Maria Machado; One Corner for Each Animal, by Edimilson Pereira de Almeida, one of the most respected contemporary Brazilian poets when it comes to black children’s and young adult literature and A Brief History of a Little Love, by Marina Colasanti, internationally recognized for her original and innovative work in fairy tales and marvelous stories.

These books are just a glimpse of what you can find in our full Digital Catalogue:

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Now it’s time for you to dive in and explore our books. Enjoy it!

All of the best,

Tassia Oliveira Foreign Rights FTD Educação

PICTUREBOOKS

Be Brave, Mom!

Keywords:

Family, self-knowledge, values

About the book

Be brave, mom! narrates the story of children who are about to experience their first day of school, with a fun inversion of expectations: they are the ones who encourage adults to overcome fear and insecurity. Natália Gregorini’s illustrations expand the meaning of the text by portraying the universality of the theme and the affectionate relationship between children and their families. It is an invitation to a delicious reading shared between children and adults, full of symbolism and learning. Representing the child with an active voice in a challenging situation contributes to the reflection on autonomy in childhood.

Text: Tino Freitas

Illustrations: Natália Gregorini

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-96-04045-7

where is the Book that Was Here?

Keywords:

Discoveries, guessing game, lots of laughs

About the book

Everything starts when a book goes missing, taken by a dog. But where does the dog go? It goes chasing after a cat, who’s looking for a rat, who starts running… and so, other characters start appearing. At each turn of the page, the reader is invited to look for the animals on the run and to discover where the book is going to end up. The detailed illustrations and the playful text encourage children to explore the entire surface of the pages and to make up their own stories.

Text: Telma Guimarães

Illustrations: Jana Glatt

Format: 200 x 250 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-96-02147-0

Book Chambers) | Illustration

Jabuti Award 2020 (Brazilian

FNLIJ Award 2020 (Brazilian section of IBBY) |

Siblings

Keywords:

Character values, everyday themes, family

About the book

Who has never felt curious about how a youngest child feels towards his siblings? What about the responsibilities of the eldest? How about the middle child, might he be forgotten? This incredible book has come to satisfy our curiosity. With a very light hand, and a fun and creative approach, Siblings portrays the pleasures and displeasures that are typical of each age and the position occupied in the family.

Texts and images work together harmoniously and are complemented by Roberta Asse´s rich illustrations, which use techniques such as collage, textures, high contrast photographs and lettering. What´s more: the enchanting graphic design splits the book into three parts of different heights, according to the size of each child, mounted in the shape of an accordion, which provides a tactile experience that will captivate children and improve the understanding of the content.

Text: Patricia Auerbach

Illustrations: Roberta Asse

Format: 155 x 155 mm, 155 x 235 mm, 155 x 310 mm

Pages: 72

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-65-5742-222-9

FNLIJ Award 2022 (Brazilian section of IBBY) | Best Editorial Project and Highly Recommended: Children’s Book

Rights sold to PALOP

Rights sold to Mozambique

Little Ants

Keywords:

Animals, family, self-knowledge

About the book

Little Ants brings the story of a girl who is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her little brother. While walking to the park, the girl finds a line of ants walking close by that touches her imagination. By interacting with the ants, the girl jumps into a particular story — one that will have an unexpected and fun ending. The graphic design and illustrations create a circular narrative, which begins on the front cover and ends on the back cover, completing what would be a family outing. An opportunity to approach the issue of anxiety and new discoveries in a playful and sensitive way.

Text: Natalia Borges Polesso

Illustrations: PriWi

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-96-03269-8

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The Oil Stain is Coming

Keywords:

About the book

The Oil Stain poetically portrays the greatest environmental disaster ever inflicted on the Braziliancoastline: the huge oil spill along Brazilian Northeastern and Southeastern beaches in 2019. The story goes beyond the actual warn about any kind of threat to the environment, to citizenship, to democracy, and to life. illustrations by Daniel Kondo incite a dialogue between form and content and move the readers.

Text: Guilherme Gontijo Flores

Illustrations: Daniel Kondo

Format: 200 x 200 mm

Pages: 56

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6 ISBN: 978-85-96-02981-0

Ready, Rocket, go!

Keywords:

Adventure, imagination, read the pictures

About the book

This is a book that uses childhood’s playful universe to tell a fun story, whose text, book design and illustrations provide the perfect mix of reality and fantasy. This is the story of little Iolanda who, in her backyard, with objects and furniture creates a universe of fantasy and imagination and experiences great adventures.

Ready, Rocket, Go! subtly plays with the idea of accumulation as depicted in Ana Matsusaki’s illustrations, which show how Iolanda piles up objects one on top of the other to give life to a rocket. The book’s special touch lies in the representation of reality X fantasy: reality is portrayed by “real images” and “children’s drawings” in the daily illustrations, while fantasy is shown in the night pictures.

Text: Estevão Azevedo

Illustrations: Ana Matsusaki

Format: 180 x 270 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-65-5742-134-5

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Who Is It?

Keywords:

Animals, fear, guessing game

About the book

What has big bright eyes, pointy ears, and very long nails? Is it a wolf? No! But then, who is it? This guessing tale works much like a riddles game. The narrator addresses readers proposing riddles that always end with the question: “Who is it?”. The illustrations are fundamental to the guessing game, creating situations that are by turns frightening and funny.

Text: Christina Dias

Illustrations: Rafael Antón

Format: 240 x 300 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-20-00442-5

Açorianos Award 2016 | Best Children’s Book Literary PNLD 2018

One Corner for Each Animal

Keywords:

Animals, discoveries, poems

About the book

This is a collection of 25 poems written by Edimilson Pereira de Almeida, one of the most respected contemporary Brazilian poets when we are talking about black children’s and young adult literature. The texts tell us about the animal kingdom and the language works with the children’s imagination and the various possibilities to think beyond the common sense. The black illustrator Edson Ikê sign the arts of the book and this work was inspired by the work of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. In this innovative graphic design each text block has a different position on the page and the readers has to rotate the book according to each poem. This interaction with the book-object provides a tactile experience in each turning page.

Text: Edimilson de Almeida Pereira

Illustrations: Edson Ikê

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-65-5742-700-2

A Knot in the Head

Keywords:

Family, everyday themes, imagination

About the book

This charming book by the award-winning Brazilian writer Rosa Amanda Strausz talk about Tico, a sheep who has a knot in his head that makes him different. His job of jumping fences to help people sleep leads him to Quim, a kid who is unable to sleep because he is always worrying about his parents’ quarrels.

Text: Rosa Amanda Strausz

Illustrations: Laurent Cardon

Format: 225 x 260 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-322-7993-4

Brasilia Literature Award 2014 | 2nd place: Best Children and Young Adults Book

The Boy and the Maestro

Keywords:

Child labour, discoveries, friendship

About the book

The award-winning Brazilian author Ana Maria Machado, winner of countless national and international prizes, including a selection for the White Ravens Catalogue, reappears in our catalogue with a jewel in the form of a book. Remember that book that captivates us, when it addresses a delicate issue in a sensitive and surprising way? The Boy and the Maestro is an exciting story of the friendship between a boy who lives in a low-income community in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and a conductor who, when he recognizes the boy’s talent, starts encouraging him to develop his musical gift. Themes such as child labor, a child’s abandonment by his father, the discovery of individual talents and basic musical concepts are all treated with great care in the text and portrayed with an incredible mix of colors and perspective in Vinicius Sabbato’s illustrations.

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Text: Ana Maria Machado

Illustrations: Vinicius Sabbato

Format: 170 x 240 mm

Pages: 56

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-65-5742-136-9

My Family Enauenê

Keywords:

Diversity, Indigenous people of Brazil, strong females

About the book

To play, to swim in the river or to play football— boys’ activities—or to do tasks that are only girls’? This is the great impasse faced by the book’s protagonist, who is actually author Rita Carelli, in a true story that highlights the rigid social roles among the men and women of the indigenous village of the Enauenê-Nauê in Brazil. With great sensitivity, the book addresses issues such as social roles, work divisions, cultural diversity and different lifestyles that exist in all cultures. The beautiful illustrations by Anabella López mix collage and painting, explore contrasts and reveal important details of the tribe, such as the tattoos on the women’s bellies, the shape of the houses and the dimensions of the patio.

Text: Rita Carelli

Illustrations: Anabella López

Afterword: Betty Mindin and Ana Paula Lima Rodgers

Format: 200 X 255 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-85-96-01651-3

FNLIJ

AEILIJ

Lili’s Surgery

Keywords:

Animals, fable, friendship

About the book

Lili’s Surgery tells the story of a good friendship that almost ends because of an accident: while playing hide-and-seek, Gregório the frog gets trapped in the trunk of his little elephant friend, Lili. So, left with no other choice, Lili has to undergo surgery to have Gregório pulled out of his trunk. To do so, she will have to be very brave.

Text: Rubem Alves

Illustrations: Veridiana Scarpelli

Format: 200 x 270 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-85-96-00406-0

Literary PNLD 2018

Diversity

Keywords:

Diversity, life lessons, tolerance

About the book

One of the most renowned authors in Brazil, Tatiana Belinky writes in verse about the importance of understanding and respecting difference. Diversity means different skin color, hair texture or even different moods. These are things that do not make people better or worse, just different. Like all human beings.

Text: Tatiana Belinky

Illustrations: Gilles Eduar

Format: 225 mm X 260 mm

Pages: 40

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-85-20-00090-8

Literary PNLD 2018

People of Color Color of People

Keywords:

Character values, diversity, tolerance

About the book

Prejudice, tolerance and diversity are the themes addressed in this picture book by author Mauricio Negro, recognized with awards and national and international accolades. Two characters, one whose skin is black and the other with skin of another color, experience moments of hunger, cold, fear, heat, anger, fun, and joy. Anxiety, desires, joys and sorrows are emotions that are felt by all human beings, regardless of the color of their skin. The vibrant tones and contrasts propose a reflection that goes beyond racial boundaries.

Text: Mauricio Negro

Illustrations: Mauricio Negro

Back cover: Lázaro Ramos

Format: 225 x 300 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Wordless Picturebook

ISBN: 978-85-96-00985-0

Will There Be an Apple Tree?

Keywords:

Nature, read the pictures

About the book

Part of every child’s development involves asking questions. Today, some of the most important questions kids ask are related to the environment. This delightful picture book shows children how “progress” can change the place we live in and how we relate to it. Brilliant, detailed illustrations address some of the questions kids ask with a simplicity that brings to life the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.”

Text: Alê Abreu and Priscilla Kellen

Illustrations: Alê Abreu and Priscilla Kellen

Format: 225 X 260 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Wordless Picturebook

ISBN: 978-85-322-7411-3

ILLUSTRATED FICTION AND NOVELS

Olivia’s Book Club

Keywords:

Friends, inspiration, reading

About the book

After enchanting the world with Where is the book that was here?, published in 4 countries, Telma Guimarães launches Olívia’s book club In this story of engaging in reading, Olivia was shocked when two classmates said they didn’t like to read. However, in the words of the protagonist, “this is not incorrigible”, and she tried to think of a plan to change that story. This is how the “Book Club” was created, with the purpose of encouraging their colleagues to enjoy reading. In addition to celebrating reading and books, this plot praises the friendship and encouragement of parents to their children’s dreams and achievements.

Text: Telma Guimarães

Illustrations: Kaká Leal

Format: 170 x 240 mm

Pages: 32

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 3 to 6

ISBN: 978-85-96-03940-6

Beyond the Rain

Keywords:

Discoveries, friendship, natural disaster

About the book

This book tells the story of four friends who get together and create inventions that will help to contain damages caused by summer storms in a large city. The text tackles the role every citizen can play to solve social environmental problems, besides encouraging autonomy and responsibility. Beyond the Rain has original stamp-base illustrations by the rewarded illustrator Fernando Vilela. Subjects as the environment and teen protagonists are elaborately worked out along with an informative text at the end of the book with real stories of children who created solutions to help preserve the environment.

Text: Michel Gorski and Fernando Vilela

Illustrations: Fernando Vilela

Format: 220 x 260 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-85-96-02757-1

White Ravens Catalogue 2020

Rights sold to Korea

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A Brief History of a Little Love

Keywords:

Animals, discoveries, everyday themes

About the book

Winner of the prestigious Book of the Year in Fiction Jabuti Award (Brazilian Book Chamber), 2014, this book also won Best Children’s Book, in the FNLIJ 2014 Award. This book tells the story of a writer who finds a nest with two baby pigeons. Through poetic prose, the reader follows hesitations and successes in a story about growth and development. Along with the writer and the puppies, other characters appear, giving the story a social context. The relationships between characters is observed with a keen eye and light humor, in this fascinating story by award-winning Brazilian writer Marina Colasanti.

Text: Marina Colasanti

Illustrations: Rebeca Luciani

Format: 210 X 260 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 4 to 8

ISBN: 978-85-322-8429-7

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Jabuti Award 2014 (Brazilian Book Chambers) | (Brazilian Book Chambers) Best Children’s Book and Book of the Year - Ficton

FNLIJ Award 2014 (Brazilian section of IBBY)

| Best Children’s Book and Highly Recommended: Children’s Book

Brasilia Literature Award 2014

| 5th place: Children’s Book

Two Islands

Keywords:

Family, friendship, environment

About the book

João, a 10-year-old boy, lives on the volcanic Green Island. His parents (Sophia, a biologist, and Fernando, an aviator) and his friend Mr. Alberto, a 90-year-old gardener, encourage him to respect and to love nature, so much so that his best friend is the Green Volcano. One day, his father disappears while flying. João is shaken up inside, and a slight tremor announces that the volcano has woken up. What a mystery! In this book, the nuanced observation of João’s inner world is portrayed in harmony and contrast with the outside world. The poetic text is wonderfully rendered by Zansky’s illustrations, which are realistic and dreamlike at the same time, presenting the Green Island in all its splendor. Geography, geology, environment, self-knowledge, friendship and family — all these themes underline, in a symbolic and subtle way, the love and the power that exist within João. Two Islands was a finalist in 3 prestigious prizes for manuscripts in Brazil, and the author Guilherme Semionato has books published in 8 countries.

Text: Guilherme Semionato

Illustrations: Zansky

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 64

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 8 and up

ISBN: 978-85-96-03992-5

As Important as a Piece of the Tongue

Keywords:

Bullying, friendship, self-knowledge

About the book

This book presents the story of Nayara and her two best friends, Maria Eduarda and Amanda, who one day distance themselves from her for no apparent reason. The plot deals with sensitivity and originality the passage from childhood to adolescence, with its discoveries and conflicts. How to understand the end of a friendship that was as important as a piece of the tongue? This book delicately presents an important social issue: the situation of children of incarcerated parents and the prejudice these children face.

Text: Paula Fábrio

Illustrations: Laura Athayde

Format: 170 x 240 mm

Pages: 48

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 8 and up

ISBN: 978-85-96-03917-8

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Vortex

Keywords:

Adventure, character values, technology

About the book

In 2187, young Tom is unhappy living in an age where everything is predictable and controlled by algorithms. There are systems that indicate everything from the profession to be followed to the profiles for friendship and love relationships that are most suitable for each individual. To experience the thrill he wishes, Tom turns to Vortex, a powerful company that offers travel not only to other places, but also to times gone by. Some mysteries, however, threaten the company’s interests and determine Tom’s trajectory, who ends up involved in a plot of romance and suspense.

Text: Lucia Seixas

Illustrations: Magenta

Format: 160 x 230 mm

Pages: 144

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 9 to 12

ISBN: 978-85-96-04053-2

Castor Seeds

Keywords:

Everyday themes, friendship, self-knowledge

About the book

Written and illustrated by Aline Abreu, this story begins exactly 24 hours after Malu give her first kiss, puts her bags in the car and moves with her parents to another state. Upset, she leaves behind her childhood friendships and her older brother, who, by attending the last year of school, earned the right to stay with his grandmother. What does life have in store for Malu? Promising friendships, a new school, a different routine and a new love. Emphasis on the way in which the graphic design incorporates and translates the protagonist’s flow of thought. This is the case of the summary, in which the chapter titles form a kind of autonomous text.

Text: Aline Abreu

Illustrations: Aline Abreu

Format: 135 x 205 mm

Pages: 128

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 9 to 12

ISBN: 978-85-96-04046-4

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The Voices of Ancestors

Keywords:

Customs, indigenous people of Brazil, multicultural

About the book

Daniel Munduruku compiles and retells ten tales about indigenous people who live in Brazil. The author invited people of different ethnicities to choose the stories and transcribe them as they were originally told. Some tribes chose tales of creation; others, fables; and others try to pass on their traditions. Each indigenous group is depicted with beautiful photos to bring a little of their culture to life. There are also landscapes that show the geographic diversity of the territory where the indigenous peoples live in Brazil. Wilmar D’Angelis, an indigenous person, linguist and university teacher, pens the afterword. For him, “this book offers the readers a chance to be in touch with other ways of talking about the different realities of the world or teaching these differences to the younger generations.”

Text: Daniel Munduruku

Illustrations: Wilmar D’Angelis

Format: 240 x 240 mm

Pages: 80

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Ages 9 to 12

ISBN: 978-85-96-00546-3

Award 2017 (Brazilian Book Chambers) | 2nd place: Young Adults Book

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Award 2019 (Brazilian section of IBBY) | Highly Recommended: Children’s Book

Jabuti

FNLIJ

White Ravens Catalogue 2019

Literary PNLD 2020

Latitude Zero

Keywords:

Adventure, environment, history

About the book

Latitude zero is a book that addresses the topic of coexistence and respect in the exchange of ideas, opinions and knowledge, helping the young reader to mature. It is about the adventures and discoveries of Mauricia and her aunt Letícia on a trip to the Brazilian Amazon, to visit archaeological sites and investigate the theme of life beyond Earth. The light and engaging text, with informal language and full of dialogues, brings well-constructed characters and descriptions that immerse the reader in the different landscapes of the Amazon region.

Text: Marcia Kupstas

Format: 150 x 210 mm

Pages: 208

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-04008-2

Frontiers

Keywords:

Bullying, children and young poeple, everyday themes

About the book

An unforgettable journey changes the way the protagonist Maurícia faces life, releasing her from her daily fears and anxieties. The adventures and challenges the youth faces allow the reader to see himself/herself in the reference universe where the characters are inscribed, as well as share their spheres of action. The storyline takes us through the Brazilian Amazon and includes Machu Picchu, the ruins of the Inca city in Peru, involving archeology and UFOs.

Text: Marcia Kupstas

Format: 150 x 210 mm

Pages: 224

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-02725-0

FNLIJ Award 2019 (Brazilian section of IBBY) | Highly Recommended: Children’s Book

Rights sold to Latin America

Literary PNLD 2020

Flight

Keywords:

Adventure, everyday themes, strong females

About the book

Marina suddenly finds herself in a crisis: she does not fit in with her classmates, she does not understand the attitudes of adults, and she starts to notice the contradictions of modern life, full of likes, selfies and self-promotion. Then she decides to immediately embark on a risky journey to an uncertain destination. She leaves behind family, friends and comfort to discover in things, in people or within herself, a place suitable for someone who is free and independent-thinking.

Text: Luana Chnaiderman de Almeida

Illustrations: Catarina Bessell

Afterword: Nina Lemos

Format: 160 X 230 mm

Pages: 128

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-01005-4

Cuatrogatos Foundation Award 2021

| Recommended books (Ediciones Norma - Latin American version of the book)

Rights sold to Latin America

Comic Books

Romeo and Juliet: a Graphic Novel Adaptation

Keywords:

Life and death, customs, values

About the book

The famous love story between young people from rival families gets an exquisite comic books version. Ivan Jaf’s script preserves the essence of the original text and Shakespeare’s literary spirit — a mix of drama, comedy and social criticism — while Tainan Rocha’s illustrations add color, light and even more action to the narrative. Agile dialogues and illustrations that preserve the original characterization in the settings and characters, with a contemporary design, give robustness to the adaptation of this universal classic. One of the differentials of the book stands out: an afterword written by a renowned Shakespeare scholar in Brazil, who guides the young reader in diving into Romeo and Juliet

Text: William Shakespeare

Theater adaptation: Ivan Jaf

Illustrations: Tainan Rocha

Afterword: Fernanda Medeiros

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 80

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-03991-8

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Mapinguari: A Community Resisting in the Heart of the Amazon

Keywords:

Character values, everyday themes, folktales

About the book

More than ever, environmental issues have taken over news headlines, conversation circles and classrooms. It is a reality that we must face, and we must think of behaviors that can revert the damage caused by human’s intervention on the environment. Mapinguari, which focuses on contemporary issues such as sustainable development and the preservation of the environment, gives young readers an opportunity to reflect upon this subject. This is a fiction story in the form of a comic book, in which the graphic design and illustrations interact with the text in a very creative way. The main character of the story is José, a young man who is faced with a dilemma when he finds out that his job threatens the community where he grew up. As he rediscovers his village, the main character discovers the history of his family and the many local values that are at risk-folklore, the rubber workers movement, indigenous culture, and the wealth of the forest.

Text: André Miranda

Illustrations: Gabriel Góes

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 160

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-65-5742-209-0

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The Odyssey: a Graphic Novel Adaptation

Keywords:

Adventure, history and miths

About the book

One of the greatest classics of humanity in comic strips. In this story, the hero is Odysseus, who lives a saga to go home after a long absence, while his son Telemachus tries to discover his father’s whereabouts. Besides this, Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, resists the onslaughts of pretenders to her hand and the throne. Homer’s oral poem is retold in its entirety, with an adaptation that preserves the essence of the original text and vibrant illustrations. Jefferson Costa signs the visual script for these comic strips. His illustrations are full of movement and have a very present light and shadow work. The composition of the pages offers a fluid and dynamic reading experience. The presence of simple and overlapping frames and images result in interactions, in a harmonious way, between scenarios and paintings.

Text: Homero

Adapter: Silvana Salerno

Illustrations: Jefferson Costa

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 112

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-03358-9

Philosopher or Dog? a Graphic Novel Adaptation

Keywords:

Adventure, character values, history

About the book

First published in 1891, Philosopher or Dog? is the first adaptation to comic strips of the Machado de Assis novel “Quincas Borba”. The book recounts life in the Brazilian Court at the end of the XIX century, and the story revolves around a love and selfseeking triangle. Adapted by Luiz Antonio Aguiar, the text becomes tridimensional in settings and characters illustrated by Verônica Berta with different perspectives. Lines, colors, lights, and shadows give birth to a perfect and original version of this Brazilian literature classic.

Text: Machado de Assis

Illustrations: Verônica Berta

Screenwriter: Luiz Antonio Aguiar

Format: 205 x 275 mm

Pages: 96

Cover: paperback

Age Group: Tween

ISBN: 978-85-96-02828-8

FNLIJ Award 2020 (Brazilian section of IBBY)

| Highly Recommended: Young Adult Book

Illustration index Illustration index

FRONT AND BACK COVERS

Carolina Guimarães Couto, The Availability of the Soul

FRONT ENDPAPERS

Carolina Guimarães Couto, The Availability of the Soul

SUMMARY

Natália Gregorini, Be Brave, Mom!

WELCOME

Zansky, Two Islands

PICTUREBOOKS

PriWi, Little Ants

PAGE 23

Alê Abreu and Priscilla Kellen, Will There Be an Apple Tree?

ILLUSTRATED FICTION AND NOVELS

Catarina Bessell, Flight

PAGE 37

Laura Athayde, As Important as a Piece of the Tongue

COMIC BOOKS

Tainan Rocha, Romeo and Juliet: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX

Vinicius Sabbato, The Boy and the Maestro

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Ana, Matsusaki, Ready, Rocket, Go!

BACK ENDPAPERS

Rebeca Luciani, A Brief History of a Little Love

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