The First Steps of Lobato in the 20's and 30's Decades: From Orality to the Recent News on Children's Taste and Preferences
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Cabral, Izaura da Silva
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Journal article
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English
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text (article)
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2015
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Álabe: Revista de Investigación sobre Lectura y Escritura ISSN 2171-9624 Nº. 11, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: enero - junio)
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In Brazil, one of the forerunners of children's literature is Monteiro Lobato, an author who took notice of some of the characteristics experienced by others and of the fact that the school of those times was starting to introduce reading into the daily activities of school, at the same time that books targeted to children were being produced. Thus, we will seek to identify the construction of work on children, especially the findings on the preferences of infant readers during the '20s and '30s of the XXth century, as it is the case of orality and other features clearly recorded in the editions of his works. We will undertake an analysis taking as corpus the editions of The Girl Upturned Little Nose (1920) and the first chapter "Narizinho snub" (1934) of the Reinações Narizinho. From this analysis, one can see the reasons why Monteiro Lobato made changes in order to reach children readers. It served to establish himself as one of the greatest authors of Brazilian children's literature of all time.