RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 53

August 2006

 
PART XIX:

Children's Books

 
 
236. BACELAR, Manuela. Bernardino. Porto: Afrontamento, 2005. Colecção Triciclo Voador, 7. Lge. 4° (25.85 x 21.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. [18 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-36-0763-8. $22.00

Illustrated by the author.

 
237. CORREIA, Clara Pinto. A história horrorosa dos peixes amarelos. Joana Quental, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca "Tempo dos Mais Novos", 14. Lge. oblong 8°, publ. illus. bds. [21 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-552-123-5. $20.00

The author, born in Lisbon in 1960, has published well over 40 titles since 1983, including fiction, poetry, essays, juvenile literature, and scientific works addressed to the more intelligent sectors of the general public. She has done post-doctoral research in embryology at SUNY Buffalo. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 139-40.

 
238. COTRIM, João Paulo, and Tiago Manuel, pseud. [i.e. Alvaro Cunhal]. Canção da rocha, da onda e da nuvem. Porto: Afrontamento, 2005. Colecção Tretas e Letras / Série Olho Vivo, 5. 4° (19.8 x 19.7 cm.), publ. illus. bds. [16 ll.], profusely illus. in color.ISBN: 972-36-0724-7. $18.00

 
239. LAGE, Rui. Tiago e os primos espantam os morcegos. Joana Quental, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca "Tempo dos Mais Novos", 6. Lge. oblong 8°, publ. illus. bds. [21 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-552-177-4. $20.00

Born Porto, 1975, the author was (and may still be) a member of the administration of the Fundação Eugénio de Andrade. He has collaborated in the review Cadernos de Serrúbia, and is literary director of the literary review Aguasfurtas. He has also written for the Jornal de notícias in its section on culture. His first two publications were books of poems, Antigo e primeiro (sonetos) (2002) and Berçário (2004), both published by Quasi Editores. His third was a play, Não há mais que nascer e morrer, published by Edições Mortas (2004).

 
240. LETRIA, José Jorge. A árvore dos abraços. Joana Quental, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca "Tempo dos Mais Novos", 10. Lge. oblong 8°, publ. illus. bds. [21 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-552-119-7. $20.00

José Jorge Letria's A dúvida melódica was awarded the Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais in 1951, he has published at least 33 volumes of poetry, a number of which have also been awarded literary prizes, including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz-Município de Lisboa (twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. His historical novella, Morro bem, salvem a pátria (2005), was set around the assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio Station in Lisbon, December 1918. From January 1994 until January 2002 Letria was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara Municipal de Cascais.
 

241. MARKL, Nuno. Sebastião regressa a casa. Epopeia de Nuno Markl. Joana Quental, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca "Tempo dos Mais Novos", 13. Lge. oblong 8°, publ. illus. bds. [21 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-552-122-7. $20.00

 
242. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. Histórias da deserta grande: uma peça de teatro para bonifrates. Porto: Afrontamento, 2006. Colecção Tretas e Letras, 44. Lge. 4° (22.9 x 22.5 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 43, (1) pp., (2 ll.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-36-0828-6. $20.00

Text by Viale Moutinho, illustrations by Santos. Viale Moutinho, a native of Madeira (b. 1945) and a journalist, who has worked for the Diário de noticias, Lisbon, has produced at least 12 volumes of poetry, 12 of fiction, 7 children's books, and 7 works of essays or interviews. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 329-330. His Já os galos pretos cantam (2003), a volume consisting of four stories set during the Spanish Civil War, was awarded the Prémio Edmundo Bettencourt by the Câmara Municipal do Funchal, 2003. His No pasarán: cenas e cenários da guerra civil de Espanha was awarded the Prémio Norberto Lopes da Casa da Imprensa (1998), and Apenas uma estátua equestre na Praça da Liberdade (2002) was awarded the Grande Prémio do Conto, APE. Cenas da vida de um minatauro was awarded both the Prémio Orlando Gonçalves and the Grande Prémio do Conto, APE.
 
243. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. O livrinho das adivinhas. 2nd ed. Porto: Afrontamento, 2006. Colecção Tradições Populares Portugueses, 3. Lge. 4° (22.9 x 22.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (24 ll.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-36-0795-6. $20.00

First published November 2005; this second edition appeared in April 2006. Edited and with an introduction by Viale Moutinho, illustrations by Santos.
 

244. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. O livrinho dos contos do Alto Douro. Porto: Afrontamento, 2005. Colecção Tradições Populares Portugueses, 4. Lge. 4° (22.9 x 22.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 46 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 972-36-0796-4. $20.00

Text by Viale Moutinho, illustrations by Santos.

 
245. REIS-SA, Jorge. Tomé e o poema: livro um dos doze apóstolos. Joana Quental, illus. Vila Nova da Famalição: Quasi, 2005. Biblioteca "Tempo dos Mais Novos", 7. Lge. oblong 8°, publ. illus. bds. [22 ll.], profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 989-552-116-2. $20.00

Reis-Sá, born Vila Nova da Famalicão, 1977, was judged the winner of the III Jogos Florais de Vila Nova de Familicão. He was a founder of the publishing house Quasi Edições, and was also its director at the time this book appeared. He has published four volumes of poetry and collaborated in and edited significant anthologies. The novellaTodos os dias (Dom Quixote, 2006) was apparently his first published work of longer fiction.