25 Classics of Brazilian Children’s Literature for Your Little Ones

Children’s literature can encourage the pleasure of reading at an age when children’s tastes and preferences develop. That’s why stimulation is so important for intellectual formation. Reading a book helps children to work on affectivity, the ability to create and feelings, in addition to stimulating cognitive development and sociability, creating a critical reader who knows his place in society.

O Incredible.club brings you to read with your little ones a list of classic titles of children’s literature that will help to cultivate in your children the passion for reading.

Talita had a strange and curious habit: naming things with rhymes. The whole family joined and started using the nicknames given by the girl. This helped the family solve this detective story very smartly. A fun and creative book, of those who don’t want to put it down.

A classic work by Vinícius de Moraes that was initially made for the author’s children, it became a book in the 1970s. A classic that has captivated children for several generations.

Zezé’s story grabs us with emotion and it’s hard not to shed a few tears. The main character has the lime orange tree as his friend and confidant. With parents far from his needs, the boy takes refuge in imagination and mixes it with reality, until the harshness of life knocks at his door. A book that brings to light the difficulty of being small in a world of parents concerned more with money than with raising their children.

A work with creative verses that works with children’s memorization and imagination. Composed of fun illustrations, it shows how discarded kitchen utensils become an animated doll. With few words, the book is great for children in the literacy phase.

Pedrinho was a very distracted boy and always seemed to be in the “world of the moon”, until, on a school trip, he surprised everyone when he showed that he actually saw life from another angle, more beautiful and fun.

Full of beautiful illustrations, the book addresses the life of a slug named Lúcia and her difficulty in going to parties because she is always slow. An invitation to friendship and cooperation, which teaches children to respect differences.

Camilo was a piglet who was obviously very gluttonous and relied on his friends to get his treats every day. A book that talks about friendship and knowing how to share.

A story full of love and cuteness; the hen lived with the rooster, but she couldn’t have chicks, so she decided to adopt a mouse. The book teaches that we shouldn’t talk to strangers, a good way to educate children. It also talks about the importance of being good.

In this little book you know the story of the apple bug; what he most liked to do was invent and tell stories to delight the routine of everyone who lived nearby. A story that makes children understand the happiness of growing up.

A lively adventure of Shale and his friend Bruzo in the galaxy defeating aliens and traveling through Space in search of more challenges.

The work had its first edition in 1931 and is the first book in the collection O Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo, by Monteiro Lobato.

The very creative work talks about the boy Marcelo, who invents changing the name of things and putting a name he thinks is more appropriate. A fun game for kids of all ages.

The book has few words and many drawings in the form of comic strips that tell the whole story. Considered the best literary work without text by the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil (1982), the book is fully illustrated with comic strips that tell short stories that stir children’s imagination.

The book talks about Raquel, a very intelligent girl who lives alone in a fantasy world with her yellow bag. The work won several awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award (1982) and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2004). The author was considered by experts a kind of successor of Monteiro Lobato.

The book tells in a very fun way what the life of fairytale princesses would be like after they were married to the princes. Pedro Bandeira’s work won the Jabuti award (the most important in Brazilian literature) and became a film starring TV presenter Xuxa Menenguel.

The kidnapping of Maribel is the beginning of the story in which a villain seeks a treasure from the girl’s grandmother and hides it in an attic. There, Maribel meets the family of a ghost named Pluft. A story full of magic and enchantment, about friendship and overcoming childhood fears.

The fairy Clara Luz is against the stories that have already been told in the books. Instead, she wants to invent her own adventures and do what she believes makes the world work. Clara Luz believes that creativity moves the world and this is the book’s great message.

The book by poet Cecília Meireles was released in 1964 and invites children to enjoy poetry in a playful way, developing the intellect and childlike delicacy. A work that encourages children to enjoy reading.

An adventure book that tells of Picolino and his grandfather, Beppe, who plan to flee to Italy together when they realize that their aunt was planning to leave their grandfather in an asylum. A book that received the Jabuti Prize for Children’s Literature (1982) and talks about the companionship of two generations, moving everyone who reads it.

A book by Origenes Lessa that mixes fantasy, reflection and humor, the story shows what happens to the tree until it becomes an object like a broomstick or has some other crueler fate.

A classic by Ziraldo, the book tells the story of a happy boy who loved adventures. True to Ziraldo’s dream that every child should live in a fantasy world, the work was so successful that it was turned into a TV series.

The book personifies a car that has a passion for Belina and speaks of awareness in traffic when it mentions its owner’s barbers and tells the story since its birth in the factory. A children’s book that holds the little reader.

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