O ensino de língua portuguesa e o incentivo à leitura literária nas linhas e entrelinhas do universo literário infantil de Monteiro Lobato.

Abstract

This article focuses on Monteiro Lobato s discourse about the Portuguese Language teaching and the incentive of literary reading between the lines of his literary universe for children. He introduced, by means of his books, his position with regard to language teaching and literary reading, as it will be shown in the titles Emília no país da Gramática (1934), Memórias da Emília (1936) and Dom Quixote das crianças (1936). In the three narratives, Emília is the character who presents that position. In the first title, she questions what grammarians do and the mixed used of the language; in the second, she weaves her memories tenaciously by questioning the genre memorialístico and, in the third, she develops arguments in relation to the education of readers of literature and their protocols of reading.