RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 66

April 2009

PART XXI:
Children’s Books


See also items 177 & 205.
232. ALVES, Alexandra, Álvaro Magalhães, Ana Fortes, et al. Tudo se transforma. Cristina Valadas and Manuela Bacelar, illus. Porto: Afrontamento / O Fio de Ariana, 2007. Colecção Tretas e Letras, 49. Lge. 4° (23 x 22.55 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 79, (1) pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-36-0914-1. $25.00
In addition to the authors mentioned above, there are stories by António Torrado, Jorge, Constante Pereira, Jorge Listopad, José Viale Moutinho, Manuel António Pina, and Sérgio Godinho.


233. BACELAR, MANUELA. O livro do Pedro (Maria dos 7 aos 8). Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Lge. 4° (25.8 x 21.5 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (1 ll.) 34 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-36-0938-7. $25.00
Text and illustrations by Manuela Bacelar.


234. HONRADO, Alexandre. Hoje não quero dormir!!! Natalina Cóias, illus. Lisbon: Livros Horizonte, 2009. Oblong folio (22.4 x 29 cm.), publ. illus. bds. 26 pp., (1 l.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-24-1651-1. $25.00
The author, a teacher and journalist, was born in Lisbon in 1960. He has written at least three novels for adults. One of them, A montanha russa de Deus (2001), is about "sex, violence and money". He has also written children's books, student manuals, song lyrics, plays, fictional scripts for television, as well as biographies of D. Carlota Joaquina and D. Maria I.


235. LOPES, Fátima. A viagem de Luz e Quim. José Eduardo S. Peixoto, illus. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 171 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-989-626-147-4. $30.00
The author is a well known television host. Her first [ghost written?] book, a novel about three women, Amar depois de amar-te (2006), is said to have sold 95,000 copies. It went through at least 20 editions in slightly more than six months. Another title which appeared under her name, Um pequeno grande amor, is said to have sold 55,000 copies.


236. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. O grande livro das adivinhas. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Tretas e Letras, 58. Lge. 4° (29.8 x 24.3 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (58 ll.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-36-0984-4. $35.00
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.


237. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. O grande livro das lengalengas. Lengas, parlengas, trava-línguas, outras rimas infantis e entreténs? Pois aqui as tens! Porto: Afrontamento, 2007. Colecção Tretas e Letras, 54. Lge. 4° (29.8 x 24.1 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (66 ll.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-36-0928-8. $35.00
Text by Viale Moutinho, illustrations by Santos.


238. MOUTINHO, José Viales, and Fedra Santos. O livrinho de cães & gatos. Porto: Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Tradições Populares Portugueses, 7. Lge. 4° (22.9 x 22.6 cm.), publ. illus. bds. (24 ll.), profusely illus. in color. ISBN: 978-972-36-0954-7. $25.00
Text by Viale Moutinho, illustrations by Santos.


239. NOGUEIRA, Carlos. O essencial sobre o cancioneiro infantil e juvenil de transmissão oral. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2009. Colecção Essencial, 111. 16°, orig. prtd. wrps. 127, (1) pp. One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1691-8. $18.00


240. REBELO, Tiago. Amarguinha. Danuta Wojciechowska, illus. 2nd ed. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2005. Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 63 pp., numerous illus. in color. ISBN: 972-23-2968-5. $15.00
First published 2002. The author has written three novels and three previous volumes of stories for children. He has worked as executive director of a TVI news program.



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