40 anos

Esta é a madrugada que eu esperava/O dia inicial inteiro e limpo/Onde emergimos da noite e do silêncio/E livres habitamos a substância do tempo...

(Sophia + Brian Wildsmith)

23 de Abril

"La intensidad es propia de la literatura y nos permite diferenciarla de todos los otros modos utilitarios de la palabra. En ella las palabras dejan de ser funcionales, se “olvidan” de ser útiles, se ponen a hacer “otra cosa”, como hacen “otra cosa” los gestos en el teatro o los sonidos en la música y el conjunto genera entonces una fuerza mucho más potente que la suma de palabras que lo constituyen, alcanzando un resultado que aprovecha de un modo misterioso las cualidades de cada una de las piezas que lo componen. Por eso cada buen texto es un pequeño triunfo sobre lo oscuro, sobre lo plano, lo literal, lo cerrado, lo puramente racional y lo unívoco. Escribir nos enseña que el lenguaje es más grande que nosotros". Maria Teresa Andruetto

guess the references?

Great homage to children's books authors by Catarina Sobral for this weekend's 

"Atual" cover.

how to spell the alphabet

by Tauba Auerbach
( via Biblioklept )

one (or more) special app

Uma aplicação extraordinária, justamente premiada em Bolonha no "Apple for Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award" na categoria non-fiction:

Pierre et le Loup

"A wonderful new adaptation of the masterpiece of classical music for children: Peter and the Wolf by Sergueï Prokofiev. A 30-minutes film combined with exclusive footages and 9 playful and poetic musical activities. With the complicity of musicians from the National Orchestra of France, conducted by maestro Daniele Gatti, give life to the characters, become the composer, mix the instruments, travel in the orchestra at 360 degrees..."

Outras pela mesma equipa, anteriores, com conceitos semelhantes: 

"Le Carnaval des Animaux is a magical book which takes children into the heart of Camille Saint-Saens’s musical masterpiece.

 Page after page, you will discover Saint-Saens’s musical universe with various games and activities, and more than 100 minutes of film extracts starring  the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, directed by the maestro Myung-Whun Chung."

"Les saisons d'Antoine" introduces your child to the masterpiece of Antonio Vivaldi through a lively and musical book. Find in this app the 4 Seasons of Antoine Pierre Richard and the musicians from the Concerto Italiano directed by Alessandro Alessandrini and all the characters of the animated film broadcasted on France 3. 

One app full of humor and poetry that mixes in a wonderful way scenes of the film and fun activities for the whole family."

there is no such thing as children's literature *

"I don´t write for children. I write - and somebody says: that's for children. Maurice Sendak

*Jack Zipes in Sticks and stones: the troublesome success of children's literature.