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The Fairy Tale Revisited
Katia Canton
Originally written in English, the book provides answers to basic questions:
what fairy tales are, What are their meanings? Based on a doctor’s degree
research, the book investigates the contexts where different versions of the
same tales – Cinderella, Blue Beard, the Girl Who Did Not Have Hands – were
written and staged.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
I suggest an investigation about the readers’ favorite fairy tales and a
discussion about their justifications and memories.
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E o Príncipe Dançou: The fairy tales, from the oral tradition to the
Contemporaneous Dance
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Ática, 1994, 238 pages.
ISBN 8508051239
Subjects: fairy tales, arts, dance
Interdisciplinarity: story, arts, literature
Transversal Themes: Cultural plurality
Suggestion: adults
SUMMARY
Adapted on the author’s doctor’s degree about the fairy tales in their different
versions along the time, the book analyses particularly three contexts:
Charles Perrault’s production, in France of 17th century, the Grimm brothers in
Germany, in the beginning of the 19th century, the United Sates during the
1930s and 40s, about Walt Disney’s movie adaptation. The fairy tales are
studied in its versions in the literature, dance and ballet.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
We propose a creation and investigation workshop based on Cinderella, the
most popular fairy tale of all. There are 406 registered versions by
anthropologists and folklorists, including versions of China b.C. to recent
versions. The attendants will be invited to investigate different versions, telling
them, staging them or illustrating them.
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Novíssima Arte Brasileira – um Guia de Tendências
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Iluminuras, 198 pages.
ISBN: 857321-136-9
Subjects: visual arts, contemporaneous world
Interdisciplinarity: Story, politics and society
Transversal Themes: Cultural plurality
Suggestion: adult
SUMMARY
The book depicts the great themes or trends of the new Brazilian art. The base
for the investigation is the follow-up of a representative group of 70 Brazilian
artists, who begin their careers in the 1990s. The analyzed themes, the bias
narrative, the memory and the time, the public and private spaces, the body
and the eroticism, a new spirituality and the modern inheritances.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
To create forms of art based on the book themes, such as memory, body, time
and identity.
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Alex Flemming, uma Poética
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Metabooks, 2002, 159 pages.
ISBN: 85-85371-39-0
Subjects: visual arts, literature
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: adults
SUMMARY
Alex Flemming, uma Poética... brings to the reader a reflection about the 25
years of Alex Flemming’s artistic production. Illustrated with about one
hundred works, the book divides this trajectory into three important versants –
life, death and spirituality. It shows, with the same manner, the artist’s passage
through the story of cities and cultures, outstanding characteristics in his work.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
To discuss the art the themes of life, death and spirituality.
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Retrato da Arte Moderna
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Martins Fontes, 2002, 120 pages.
ISBN: 85-336-1530-2
Subjects: visual arts, contemporaneous world
Interdisciplinarity: story, arts, politics and society
Transversal Themes: cultural plurality
Suggestion: adolescents and adults
Malba Tahan Award – Best Informative Book in 2002.
FNLIJ (Fundação Nacional do Book Infantil e Juvenil) (National Book Foundation
for Children and Adolescents)
Adopted by the PNLD 2003 government program
SUMMARY
In this book, the art in Brazil is analyzed together with the art of other
countries in the Western world. Each chapter studies a defined period in the
modern art evolution by placing the artistic movements in the historic context
and establishing the connections between those movements and the main
events of that period of time. For each and every studied movement the book
offers interactive exercises to think and to make art, using the reproductions of
works that illustrate the book. All the works of art that are mentioned on the
exercises belong to Brazilian museums so that the reader can have the
opportunity to appreciate them personally.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
To follow the steps of Pausas do Olhar, that follow each chapter of the book,
with proposals of readings, songs and poetic re-creation of the chosen works in
Retrato.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Contos que Brotam nas Florestas: na Trilha dos Irmãos Grimm
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-112-4
Illustrated by Denise Milan
Subjects: passage ritual, forest
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
FNDE/MEC
PNLD 2001
Adopted by One Library in every Municipality Program
SUMMARY
The tales of Little Red Hood, Hans and Gretchen, Snow White and the Sleeping
Beauty are told and in them the forest has the role of the unknown, in a
universe of princes and princesses, witches and wonderful beings. Contos
que brotam na floresta brings the magic world created by the Grimm brothers
almost two centuries ago and unveils the teachings of these fables that until
our days fascinate children and adults.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Fadas que não Estão nos Contos – uma Confusão de Contos Clássicos
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Pinky Wainer
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-111-6
Subject: classical X modern: reality X dream
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Adopted by One Library in every Municipality Program.
PNLD Textbook National Program - 2001,
FNDE/MEC
SUMMARY
The bad wolf thinks that he is a Prince and waits for Joaninha at the school,
believing that she is the Little Red Hood, or maybe Cinderella or the Sleeping
Beauty. In Fadas que não estão nos contos, some characters of children’s
fables invade the daily routine of a girl in the present times, in a curious and
funny story.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
List your favorite fairy tales and try and joint them in a unique narrative.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIA Collection
Debaixo de uma Cerejeira – Histórias Contadas no Japão
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Luiz Hermano
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 PAGES.
ISBN: 85-7338-109-4
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, art
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY
Tadazane loves the beautiful Tadawari and decides to attract her by telling his
stories in the dark: the nights are the only moment when he can see her.
Debaixo de uma cerejeira is a wonderful travel by the rich Japanese culture,
with its parables, mysteries, traditions and values that, although they are
millenaries, they still are respected and appraised in Japan.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
To investigate the traditional Japanese culture, having as a reference the city of
Kioto of the year 1000, which is the context of the book.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Chocolate Quente na Neve – Handersen’s Danish Stories
Kátia Canton
Illustrate by Leda Catunda
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-053-5
Subject: the Danish culture, fairy tales
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, art
Transversal Themes; ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Adopted by One Library in every Municipality Program
PNLD 2001, FNDE/MEC
SUMMARY
In the Danish Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, poor boys and girls become
princes and princesses. In Chocolate quente na neve, at the same time when
the reader travels by there-created stories, He or she gets to know part of the
story of the writer how is considered as one of the founders of children’s
literature.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
To investigate the Danish culture, background of Andersen’s stories.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Entre o Rio e as Nuvens: Algumas Histórias Africanas
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Dudi Maia rosa
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-110-8
Subjects: Africa, religiousness
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: Children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
African tales are loaded with spirituality. One good example of this is the
exciting story of the young man Ghiase, who falls in love with Emme. She is
kidnapped by a genius of the river and is only freed with the intervention of a
witch. Os contos de Entre o rio e as nuvens translate, by means of literature,
the great African cultural riches.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
To investigate visual aspects of the African culture, that is present in the
artifacts and in the popular art.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Balé dos Skazkás – Viajando pelos Contos da Rússia
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Guto Lacaz
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-113-2
Subjects: fairy tales, Russia, dance
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
A country like Russia, with a great artistic tradition, also has fantastic tales such
as The Golden Frog that reminds us of the tale of Cinderella. And there are
others, many others. Some of them inspired famous ballets, such as The
Nut-Cracker. Balé dos Skazkás shows how the fairy tales go beyond oral
narratives and how the customs of the people adapt the tale according to their
reality of life.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
To find and, if possible, to watch in a theater or in DVDs, other ballets based on
fairy tales.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
A Bota e a Enxada – Certos Contos Italianos
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by L. P. Baravelli
São Paulo: editora DCL, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-050-0
Subjects: folkloric tales, Italy
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Margaridinha was a beautiful little girl of unknown origin, who faced
challenges to prove to the king her courage. At the end, she marries the prince.
A bota e a enxada is a book with tales from Italy, a rich country in traditions,
fables, legends and songs, that had a great deal of influence in the Brazilian
culture.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
To investigate more about Italy, its culinary art, its songs, its uses.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Noites à Luz do Dia – Sherazade Conta Histórias Árabes
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Beatriz Milhazes
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-008-X
Subjects: fairy tales, Arabian culture
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Sherazade, Aladin and Ali Baba are characters of this story where the
smartness and the honesty prevail over the Power. Children are invited to
plunge in the Orient magical and colorful world where the narrative power
plays a special role.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
To invent a jester, in which one person interrupts the other one’s story and
must add a narrative to it, playing a little bit with Sherazade’s procedure, who
interrupted her stories to create a suspense and save her live.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Contos que Valem uma Fábula – Histórias de Animais Animados
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Siron Franco
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-047-0
Subject: fables, moral senses
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
In fables, animals are capable to feel, think and talk, like the ant that works in
the summer and has its effort rewarded in the winter, differently than the lazy
grasshopper. Contos que valem uma fábula, inspired on the French writer La
Fontaine and in other narratives shows that fables are short narratives with a
moral sense.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
The book is a good instrument to show the children the present day values and
virtues. How about listening to them talking about their own values?
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Conversa de Madame – Perrault nos Salões Franceses
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Renata Barros
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-057-8
Subjects: oral tradition, story tellers
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
What is the origin of fairy tales? Where, when and by whom were they
created? Why every narrative of this kind has a happy end and always brings
some teaching? Conversa de Madame shows a re-creation of classic fairy tales,
such as The Beauty and the Beast, and the reader will feel as if he or she were
in a French Court tea saloon, listening to stories.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Organize your own stories tea saloon, with friends and relatives. Each person
tells a tale.
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ARTE CONTA HISTÓRIAS Collection
Manual da Coleção
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1996/97, 24 pages.
ISBN: 85-8585877-X
Subjects: literature, arts, environment, culinary art
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children, adolescents and adults
SUMMARY:
The Manual is about what happens behind the scenes of each story and each
illustration by the artists of the ten books of the Arte Conta Histórias
collection. Besides, the Manual offers a series of practical suggestions of
activities that are related to the books.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
You can follow any suggestions of activities in the Manual that refer to the
books of the collection. You have a visit to the zoo, research in the Atlas,
invention of names and even a cookbook. Have fun!
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Maria Martins – Mistério das Formas
Kátia Canton
Maria Martins’ works and graphic Project by Maria Teresa Louro
São Paulo: editora Paulinas, 1998, 24 pages.
ISBN: 8573119160
Subjects: sculpture, poetry, life cycles
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language,story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, environment, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Highly Recommended for Children, FNLIJ 1998
Solidarity Read and Right Teaching Program, 1998
Adopted by MEC
Jabuti Award as the Best Book for Children in 1998
SUMMARY:
In Maria Martins, the author shows a poetic text about the mystery of life on
Maria Martins’ sculptural forms.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Use the images of an artist’s works and create with them your own kind of
narrative.
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Lendas de Amor dos Índios Brasileiros
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Lina Kim
São Paulo: editora DCI, 1999, 32 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-326-7
Subjects: Brazil, indians, first inhabitants
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality, environment
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Adopted by the One Library in Each Municipality Program
Fraternity Campaign
The Indian International Year (2002)
SUMMARY:
The nature phenomenon, the trees, the Rivers, the plantations and the
animals, everything can be explained by the Indians with Love stories, such as
the one with the beautiful Naipi and her beloved Peri, who challenge the
traditions of the god known as Cobra Grande (Big Snake) and they end up by
creating the Iguassu Falls. The magic world of the Indian culture is the main
theme of this book that gives us some insight about the first inhabitants of
Brazil.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Propose the dramatization of one the stories. Before that, the students should
write the dialogues, define the characters and the costumes and then stage
them.
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João e os Animais – Fábulas Brasileiras
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Lina Kim
São Paulo: editora Martins Fontes, 2001, 38 pages.
ISBN: 8533614276
Subjects: fables, Brazilian stories
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
João was a handyman. Wherever he put his hands, wonderful things used to
arise. In gardens and backyards, the seeds that he planted resulted in healthful
seedlings that grew and turned into strong trees with lots of flowers and fruits.
With clay, wood and straw, he built beautiful houses where people could live.
For this reason they called him João-de-barro, the name of a bird that also is
very capable to build houses with clay and branches. Beatriz, the turtle, the
dog, the rooster and the chicken, Célio, the tyrant fly-catcher, the horse, the
cat, Ivo, the singing vulture are some of the characters in this story that
fascinates us for its simplicity.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Investigate how many Joãos you know and find out what each one of them has
as a special talent.
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O Roubo do Arco-Íris – Uma Fábula sobre as Cores
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Leda Catunda
São Paulo: editora Martins Fontes, 2003, 32 pages.
ISBN: 8533618999
Subjects: classic X modern; reality X dream
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
The rainbow is the magic of three children’s lives. Its colors become a play of
words. To rescue the rainbow that one day disappears from the sky, Roberto,
Chico and Marina become real heroes of a fairy tale.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
The game of colors. Each participant names a color and says what it reminds
him or her – for example, purple reminds a wound, rose a flower, etc. Work
the perceptions diversity of the same color.
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Brasil, Olhar de Artista
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2001,64 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-456-5
Subjects: Brazil, visual arts
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children, adolescents and adults
Highly Recommended for Children FNILIJ 2002
(children/adolescents) 2002
Adopted by FNDE/MECC
Malba Tahan Award, Best Informative Book 2001, awarded in 2002 by FNLIJ.
SUMMARY:
What is Brazil? This question is answered in this book by the optics of artists
who sculptured, painted and even broidered Brazilian scenes. The
reproduction of these works depicts, little by little, several faces of the country
– its people, its land, its spirit -, stimulating the reader to have contact with
artistic manifestations.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Promote a meeting between the children and one artist, preferably in his or
her work environment, so that the students can know and to interview him or
her.
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O Trem da História – Uma Viagem pelo Mundo da Arte
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Companhia das Letrinhas, 2003, 2ª edition 2006, 80 pages.
ISBN: 85-74060159-X
Subjects: arts, poetry, Education
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Trem da história is a book of art for children, with works belonging to Brazilian
collections. The researcher Kátia Canton conducts the travel, by showing the
works of great Brazilian and international artists, and shows us how these
works are near the Brazilian public and how it is possible to know them in a
visit to the museums of the country. Canton chose representatives of several
artistic traditions – Picasso and the masters of modern painting in Europe live
together with the great icons of Brazilian modernism, such as Tarsila and
Portinari, taking us to some of Brazilian contemporaneous artists, such as Leda
Catunda and Carmela Gross.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Use the train metaphor to create interdisciplinary “travels” through the art
imaginary. The song O Trenzinho Caipira by Heitor Villa Lobos is an example of
this type of creative exploration.
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PRINCESA DE CHINELOS collection
O Sonho da Princesa
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Renata Pedrosa
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2003, 36 pages.
ISBN: 7338-675-4
Subjects: fairy tales, passage rituals, dream
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Adopted by PNLD 2004
FNDE/MEC
SUMMARY:
The dreams can have different meanings on the dreamer’s imagination. In a
fairy tale many things can happen when one dream is revealed. We always
have things to learn about the human being’s frailties.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Offer a moment when children can tell their dreams. Suggest that they
illustrate those dreams.
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PRINCESA DE CHINELOS collection
A Noiva do Rei
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Beth Moysés
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2003, 48 pages.
ISBN: 7338-677-0
Subjects: fairy tales, passage rituals
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, art
Transversal Themes: ethics
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
A young king wants to get married to the most beautiful woman in the world.
The things, however, do not happen as people want. Therefore, due to a
promise he marries the ugliest woman in the world. But as in all fairy tales, in a
certain day...
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Suggest that the children should create a different end for the story.
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PRINCESA DE CHINELOS collection
Os Desenhos Mágicos
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Sandra Cinto
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2003, 46 pages.
ISBN: 7338-678-9
Subjects: fairy tales, passage rituals
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, art
Transversal theme: ethics
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Having maturity and capacity to decide is a requisite in a kingdom succession.
To transfer one’s own tasks to another person sometimes is not the most
adequate way to inherit the kingdom, but many things can change when the
conscience is awaken.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
You should ask the children to create magic drawings, with their eyes closed.
Organize the works on a panel to be shown in the classroom.
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PRINCESA DE CHINELOS collection
O Príncipe Encantado e o Mico-Leão-Dourado
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Sandra Tucci
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2003, 58 BPAGES.
ISBN: 7338-679-7
Subjects: fairy tales, passage rituals, ecology
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, natural sciences
Transversal Themes: ethics, environment
Suggestion: children and adolescents
Adotado pelo PNLD 2004
FNDE/MEC
SUMMARY:
One animal can be a great companion. The golden capuchin monkey is a
charming and intelligent little thing. It makes the saddest children and adults
happy. However, in this fairy tale it can be much more.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Suggest the children to perform an investigation about the endangered species
that are found in the area where they live.
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MUNDO DE ARTISTA collection
Espelho de Artista (Auto-Retrato)
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Cosac & Naify, 2004, 3rd revised edition, 52 pages.
ISBN: 857503328X
Subjects: visual arts, story
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
Highly Recommended for Children. FNLIJ 2005
SUMMARY:
The self-portrait mirrors and reflects the artist’s importance as well as the
importance of the world and of the time when he or she lived. This first book
of “Mundo de artista” series analyzes several types of self-portraits – from
hand printings in pre-historical caverns to the canvasses and drawings created
by great ancient and modern artists. The book examines examples from
Rembrandt to Modigliani, and from Tarsila do Amaral to Edgard de Souza. By
travelling this historic way, in Europe land in Brazil, the book shows how the
self-portrait has followed the human being in his or her desire to record and
understand his and her own existence on Earth.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Work the difference between self-image and the image that the others have
about you. You can reproduce your image on a mirror and ask one of your
colleagues to reproduce you in drawings. After that, you compare the results
and talk about them.
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MUNDO DE ARTISTA collection
Mesa de Artista (Natureza-Morta)
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Cosac & Naify, 2004, 46 pages.
ISBN: 8575033182
Subject: visual arts, story
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
Highly Recommended for Children, FNLIJ 2005
SUMMARY:
This is the second book of Mundo de Artista collection. This is one introduction
to the still-life from the daily life representation to the composition exercise.
The author shows the set table historic context and unfolds to several
processes of scene construction in painting. The English denomination still life,
an adaptation of the Dutch word stilleven, is a re-invented nature, controlled
by the human being’s hand and glance. The book teaches the reader the
detailed observation of the objects composition and show how this style can
be built by the contemporaneous artist in a more “artificial” way. So, besides
the classic artists in the style, one can study examples of Andy Warhol, Mira
Schendel, Tunga among others.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
You should list the foods that you like. Then draw your dish, which is also a still
life.
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MUNDO DE ARTISTA collection
Bicho de Artista
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Cosac & Naify, 2004, 38 pages.
ISBN: 8575033190
Subjects: visual arts, story
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
Highly Recommended for Children, FNLIJ 2005
SUMMARY:
This is the third volume of “Mundo de Artista” collection. The book stimulates
the little reader to observe the animals according to the representation style of
each and every period of time. The author shows wild and domesticated
animals and reveals how the nature is integrated in the civilization scenery.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Do you have any pet? Do you like animals? Try and create an artist’s animal.
Use your creativity to make it unique and special.
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Fantasias: poemas escritos por Kátia Canton com obras de Flávio de Carvalho
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Martins Fontes, 2004, 48 pages.
ISBN: 8533620470
Subjects: visual arts, poetry
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Indication: children from 8 year old on
FNDE/MEC
Adopted by PNLD 2005
Bologna Fair Catalog 2005
SUMMARY:
Basd on the drawings by the artist Flávio de Carvalho, in 1953, for A Cangaceira
ballet costumes, some poems were created to reflect each character’s
expressivity and magic. Image and text are added up to recreate allegoric
figures such as the burgess, the politician, the pharmacist, the newly married
man, the vegetal being, the witch, the holly man the vegetable garden man,
the “cangaceiro” (a kind or robber and killer who lived in the Northeast of
Brazil) the popular women and the mythological beings.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Make a list of costumes that you can invent and then create poems or short
stories for each one of them.
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Brincadeiras: poemas escritos por Kátia Canton com obras de Volpi
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora Martins Fontes, 2006, 47 pages.
ISBN: 8533623038
Subjects: visual arts, poetry
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
FNDE/MEC
Adopted by PNLD 2006
SUMMARY:
In this book Alfredo Volpi becomes an imaginary uncle, who teaches us how to
transform all things in the world. By means of the combination of works of art
with poetry, we are transported to a magic universe, where houses, chairs,
dolls, boats and banner invite us to play.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
If you had an imaginary uncle who could make your dreams come true, what
would you ask him to do? Write down or draw about this.
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Moda: uma História para Crianças
Kátia Canton
Conception and art by Luciana Schiller.
São Paulo: editora Cosac & Naify, 1st re-printing, 2004, 54 pages.
ISBN: 8575032828
Subjects: visual arts, fashion
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, story, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on.
Jabuti Award as the Best Book for Children, 2005, 2nd place.
SUMMARY:
The ways that you dress and introduce yourself to the world reveal the fashion
of each period of time in the history of mankind. It is in this perspective – of a
fashion about ‘the way each and everyone is dressed’, which goes beyond the
famous dressmakers’ and artists’ universe – that the teacher of history of art
Kátia Canton wrote this book, printed based on a completely hand-made
manuscript by the illustrator Luciana Schiller. Besides the historical perspective
– conducting us from the pre-history to the court of Louis XIV and from the
haute couture precursors in the 19th century to the modern stylist Jean Paul
Gaultier -, the book integrates to its narrative the universes of art and shows
and reveals the curiosities that involve the creation of famous models and
accessories.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Get your friends together and prepare an imagined fashion show. Each one
takes pieces of clothes from their wardrobe and makes creative and instigated
visuals. Do not forget the music and, if possible, make a scenario for it.
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Era uma vez Perrault
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Alzira Fragoso, Elisa de Magalhães, Flávia Ribeiro, Luciana
Schiller, Luiz Hermano, Márcia Clayton.
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2005, 80 pages.
ISBN: 85-368-0055-0
Subjects: fairy tales, oral tradition
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, art
Transversal Themes: ethics
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
SUMMARY:
The French writer Charles Perrault’s work involves the tales Peau d’Âne, the
Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, Blue Beard, Little Red Hood, the Story-Teller
and Cinderella, told by Kátia Canton. The book brings the author’s biography in
the form of a sort story, illustrations by Gustave Doré and other six
contemporaneous artists, besides new poetic finals.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
In the style that was used in Perrault’s time, you should organize a tea with
stories. While the children drink their teas, each one tells a story to their
friends.
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Era uma vez Andersen
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Beth Moysés, Nina Moraes, Renata Pedrosa, Silvia Mecozzi, Alzira
Fragos, Gabriel Veiga Jardim.
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2005, 72 pages.
ISBN: 85-368-0002-X
Subjects: fairy tales, oral tradition
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
FNDE/MEC Adopted by PNLD 2006
Bologna catalog in 2006
SUMMARY:
This book was published to celebrate the Danish writer Hans Christian
Andersen’s 200 years of birth. It is a collection of tales such as “The snow
queen”, “The Ugly Duck”, Hop o’-my-thumb”, “The valiant lead soldier”, “The
little match salesgirl” and “The king’s new clothes”. The book also has
illustrations and the author’s biography in a short story style.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Choose your Andersen’s favorite short story and create your own illustration
for it.
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Era uma vez Irmãos Grimm
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Kátia Canton, João Roberto Monteiro da Silva, Ana Kesseining,
Henk Nieman, Hortência Barreto, Josely Carvalho and Sandra Tucci.
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2006, 80 pages.
ISBN: 85-368-0101-8
Subjects: fairy tales, oral tradition
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
SUMMARY:
The Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, traveled to many villages in Germany
and heard several versions of the sort stories that today are part of many
readers’ imaginary and daily life. In this edition the book includes the following
tales: Little Red Hood, Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella, the Frog Prince and
Hans und Gretchen.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Just like the Grimm brothers have travelled all over Germany looking for
stories, you will prepare an imaginary expedition all over Brazil looking for fairy
tales. Take the map, identify the places that you want to visit and create an
itinerary. Think about the kind of stories that you would want to find in your
investigation.
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Era uma vez Esopo
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Kátia Canton, João Roberto Monteiro da silva, Victor Lema Riqué,
Sonia Guggisberg, Débora Muskat and Gabriel Veiga Jardim
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2007, 64 pages.
ISBN: 85-368-0252-9
Subject: fairy tales, oral tradition
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, arts
Transversal Themes: ethics
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
SUMMARY:
No one knows for sure when the first fables arose. But it was with the slave
Aesop, in the ancient Greece, in the 6th century b.C. that the fables became
very popular and, for this reason, they are even told in the present days. In this
book you will learn about this excellent public speaker and his time, besides
nineteen of his best fables, illustrated by a number of artists.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
You should invent new fables to deal with the daily matters.
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Escultura Aventura
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Gal Oppido (photos)
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2004, 60 pages.
ISBN: 85-7338-961-3
Subjects: arts
Interdisciplinarity: art, story
Transversal Themes: Cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
FNDE/MEC Adopted by PNLD 2006
Bologna Catalog in 2006
SUMMARY:
Do you know what a sculpture is? In this book the reader will go through the
magic world of art, going from the Prehistory until what we can call as
post-modernity. The reader will find out that sculptures can be seen, touched,
felt, dressed, smelled, in short, that they always surprise us.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
In the space of your city, look for your favorite sculptures. Record everything,
by taking photos or drawing them.
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Pintura Aventura
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2006, 60 pages.
ISBN: 85-368-0150-6
Subjects: artes
Interdisciplinarity: art, story
Transversal Themes: Cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Have you ever thought in adventuring through the world of painting? Dive in
this experience discovering a little bit more about the history of art with
Pintura Aventura, written by Kátia Canton. You will get to know painters, their
works and the artistic movements of several periods of time. From paintings
on the walls of caverns to Tarsila do Amaral, get ready for paints of several
colors and free the artist that is inside of you.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Discuss with your friends the meaning of “it is not as bad as they say”. Then
translate it with your own art.
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ARTE AVENTURA collection
Arquitetura Aventura
Kátia Canton
São Paulo: editora DCI, 2007, 72 pages.
ISBN: 9788536802916
Subjects: arts
Interdisciplinarity: art, story
Transversal Themes: Cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
Do you know that tree house that you always dreamed to have? It has
everything to do with architecture. And that tent made of bed sheets and
chairs, the dog house, the doll house? Unwillingly, you practice architecture
playing. In her book Arquitetura Aventura, Kátia Canton invites the reader to
discover places and symbols of the Brazilian and international architecture, in a
funny way.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
List the curious architecture works in your city.
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Yoga para Crianças
Kátia Canton
Photos: Tadeu Jungle
São Paulo: editora Cosac & Naify, 2007, 48 pages.
ISBN: 978-85-7503-595-5
Subjects: yoga, concentration, self-knowledge, Hindu culture
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language
Transversal Themes: ethics, cultural plurality
Suggestion: children and adolescents
SUMMARY:
This book teaches us the first steps to practice yoga, not letting aside some of
its origin. To this purpose, it shows a far-reaching approach the ways how to
breathe, how to position yourself and how to relax. For the children, the yoga
will certainly be as fun as playing soccer or running. With the difference that
yoga is a moment of concentration and self-knowledge: an invitation to the
body expression and experimentation. The reader will follow set by step the
children positions, photographed by Tadeu Jungle. The book also rescues
elements of the Hindu culture, in its graphic Project and in its language. The
positions names are explained with their correspondent Sanskrit words and, at
the end, the reader can say a peace mantra in that language. This is a book to
transform the body into a living poem. As the yogue Lygia Lima writes on the
cover of the book, “I invite you to open this present. Do not think twice”.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Begin with the pronunciation of positions in the Sanskrit language and evolve
to the relaxation and concentration exercises and, finally, to the positions.
Click here to visualize an animation about the book.
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Monstruário
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Guazzelli
ISBN: 9788599520611
Subject: life, psychology, daily life
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language, well-being
Transversal Theme: ethics
Suggestion: children from 8 year old on
SUMMARY:
No, you are not wrong. The book title means “Show of Monsters”. But you
guessed right if you thought that it would be about a showcase, one of those
books that are a catalog of different things in one volume. This book
approaches, in a light and original way, the guilty, the pessimism, the
prejudice, the bad nourishment and other monsters that haunt adults’ and
children’s daily lives.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
Make a list, with the children’s support, of other daily life monsters.
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A Festa das Palavras
Kátia Canton
Illustrated by Marcos Brias
São Paulo: editora Girafinha, 2007, 64 pages.
ISBN: 9788599520383
Subject: language, children’s play, creativity
Interdisciplinarity: Portuguese language
Transversal Theme: culture
Suggestion: children from 6 year old on
SUMMARY:
The letters here not only become stories: they are characters. The writer and
illustrator plays with the alphabet as if it existed just for that. Text and design
in the right measure so that the reader does not get tired. Everything is
information.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
List curious names in the English language: such as fig tree, rabbit, etc.