Contos populares adaptados para o suporte do folheto literário.

Abstract

Children’s literature comes to Brazil through translations and adaptations of universal classic works which are, at first, the readings of our children and young people. Only in 1920, the first work considered Brazilian is published in Portuguese, which is named “Lucia or Girl’s upturned little nose”, by the renowned author Monteiro Lobato. Afterwards, many other works started to be launched, and many authors dedicated to writing a national literature intended for children and the youth came to be known. In spite of this, adaptations in large quantity continue to be part of the national scene. That is why they need attention of scholars, especially concerning child literary reading. Knowing that adaptations arise from more different genres for different media, we will discuss this publishing phenomenon, focusing on adaptations of folktales (or “fairy”) for the poetry of Brazilian booklets.