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José Bento Monteiro Lobato (Taubaté, Brazil, April 18 1882; São Paulo, July 4, 1948) was one of the most influential Brazilian writers. He is best known for a set of educative but entertaining children books, which comprise about half of his production. The other half, consisting of a number of novels and short tales for adult readers, was less popular but marked a watershed in Brazilian literature.

Table of contents

1 Children books 2 Adult books 3 Collected prefaces, interviews, articles and correspondence 4 See also 5 External links

Children books

Most of his children books were set in the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo ("Ranch of the Yellow Woodpecker"), a small farm in the Brazilian countryside, and featured the elderly ranch owner Dona Benta, her grandchildren Narizinho ("Little Nose") and Pedrinho, the servant Tia Nastácia. These real characters were complemented by entities created or animated by the children's imagination: the irreverent doll Emília and the aristocratic corncob puppet Visconde, the pig Rabicó and the rhinoceros (sic) Quindim. However the adventures mostly develop elsewhere: either in fantasy worlds invented by the children, or in stories told by Dona Benta in evening sessions. These three universes are deftly intertwined so that the stories or myths told by the grandmother naturally become the setting for make-believe play, punctuated by routine farm events.

The children tales were turned into TV programs in the 1970s.

• A menina do nariz arrebitado (1920)
• Reinações de Narizinho (1931)
• Viagem ao Céu and O Saci (1932)
• Caçadas de Pedrinho and Hans Staden (1933)
• História do mundo para as crianças (1933)
• Memórias da Emília and Peter Pan (1936)
• Emília no país da gramática and Aritmética da Emília (1934)
• Geografia de Dona Benta (1935)
• Serões de Dona Benta and História das invenções (1937)
• D. Quixote das crianças (1936)
• O poço do Visconde (1937)
• Histórias de tia Nastácia (1937)
• O Picapau Amarelo and A reforma da natureza (1939)
• O Minotauro (1937)
• A chave do tamanho (1942)
• Fábulas (1942?)
• Os doze trabalhos de Hércules (2 vols) (1944)

Adult books

• Urupês
• Cidades mortas
• Negrinha
• Idéias de Jeca Tatu
• A onda verde and O presidente negro
• Na antevéspera
• O escândalo do petróleo and Ferro
• Mr. Slang e o Brasil and Problema vital
• América
• Mundo da lua and Miscelânea
• A barca de Gleyre (2 vols)

Collected prefaces, interviews, articles and correspondence

• Prefácios e entrevistas
• Literatura do Minarete (*)
• Conferências, artigos e crônicas (*)
• Cartas escolhidas (2 vols) (*)
• Críticas e outras notas (*)
• 'Cartas de amor'' (*)

(*) Published posthumously.

See also

• Saci (Brazilian folklore)

External links

• Site by the Globo TV network (in Portuguese)
• Another site (in Portuguese)

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