Monteiro Lobato

A cole o 7 melhores contos - especial traz o melhor da literatura, organizada em antologias tem ticas. Neste volume, temos sete contos que representam o melhor da literatura brasileira em seus diferentes temas e estilos. Os contos presentes nessa obra s o: - Pai contra m e por Machado de Assis- A Nova Calif rnia por Lima Barreto- Dentro da Noite por Jo o do Rio- Contrabandista por Jo o Sim es Lopes Neto- A caolha por J lia Lopes de Almeida- Gaetaninho por Alc ntara Machado- Negrinha por Monteiro Lobato.

Saci (original title: O Saci) Bonus short stories: The Periscope (original title: O Perisc pio), Caterpillars and Butterflies (original title: Lagartas e Borboletas) and The Second Jackfruit (original title: A Segunda Jaca). Who are the sacis? Saci is a one-legged Brazilian folktale character known for his black skin, red tuque, pipe and pranks. Elfish, he will do your head in if he wants to annoy you, but if you are lost in the woods there is no better guide than this ally of plants and animals. It's nearly midnight and Saci and Pete delve into Red Toucans Weald, the dense forest just beyond Yellow Woodpecker Grange, and outsmart darkness, jaguars, anacondas, rattlesnakes... and supernatural creatures: Caipora, Curupira, Headless Mule, White Pig Sow with her seven piglets, Werewolf, Iara and the implacable 3,000-year-old alligator-headed witch Cuca, who kidnaps Retroussy. The two heroes have until dawn to solve the mystery and achieve her rescue. The short stories also by Monteiro Lobato included in this book are 'The Periscope', 'Caterpillars and Butterflies'and 'The Second Jackfruit'. In 'The Periscope', Viscount, now an inventor, creates a periscope to see the invisible, and what do they see? Sacis In 'Caterpillars and Butterflies', Viscount presents his new invention: the 'psychocaptor', a machine that reads the thoughts of animals and trees. In 'The Second Jackfruit', Viscount is missing and Emily summons the ingenuity of a saci to help her find her best friend.

Original title: Reina es de Narizinho - Volume UmLucy, the girl with the retrouss nose, or Retroussy Lucy, or just Retroussy, as everybody calls her, is living out her childhood in the Yellow Woodpecker Grange with her grandmother Dona Benta and the housekeeper Aunt Nastacia. And, very importantly, her cousin Pete spends every school holiday in the grange, and that's when the best of dreams, plays and learning take form. Other participants that don't miss a single adventure are the talking ragdoll Emily, the piglet Notail and the wise corncob Viscount Benedict Corncobs. In this opening volume of the series we see the yellowwoodpeckers in an unforgettable voyage into the beautiful deep sea, then bumping into an exciting adventure with Western movie star Tom Mix, getting to know a beehive and its organised inhabitants, attending the solemn funeral of a wasp, and even taking part into two Royal Weddings. In 'The Lamprey', bonus short story also by Monteiro Lobato, Retroussy, Pete, Emily and Viscount meet again their friends from the sea and find out what they have been up to. JOS RENATO MONTEIRO LOBATO (S o Paulo, Brazil, 18 April 1882 - 04 July 1948) was South America's pioneer in the genre Children's Literature as well as the founder of the first publishing house in the continent. Notably, he translated from the English and self-published Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and JM Barrie's Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. His fantasy books featuring the YELLOW WOODPECKER GRANGE characters have been adapted to cinema, TV series, comic books, theatre, music and TV cartoons across the decades. Monteiro Lobato has influenced many generations of writers and his characters are still the most recognisable in national culture.