Pilar’s Diary Of Greece (Diário de Pilar na Grécia)

Pilar loves travelling. Her series of books is well known in Brazil. Now she keeps a diary, describing every moment of her fi rst adventure. She grew up without her dad, in her grandpa’s house. When Pilar’s grandpa goes to Greece and she hears that he is never coming back, she cannot accept it and wishes she could go after him. With a magic hammock, she and her best friend Breno travel to Greece and meet several gods along the way. But life among them isn’t easy and no one will ever be the same after this adventure. Pilar’s Diary of Greece is charmingly illustrated by Joana Penna – the Agency’s fi rst represented illustrator.

The House That Sold Elephants (A Casa que Vendia Elefante)

The House That Sold Elephants is a story of a girl that dreams of receiving an unusual present – an elephant! The readers will not be able to resist this beautifully illustrated story.

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Explanation Freak (Mania de Explicação)

A poetical dictionary through which a girl tries to simplify the world, Explanation Freak proposes inventive defi nitions for all kinds of words. This light and lyrical poetical clas-sifi cation confi rms that Adriana Falcão is one of the most original voices of Brazilian literature today.

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Fair Moon & Apollo 11(Luna Clara & Apolo 11)

Fair Moon & Apollo 11 tells of love’s com-ings and goings with a simple plot and a sophisticated structure, of astounding cre-ativity.

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The Igloo(O Iglu)

John’s parents are divorced and now he has to talk to a... psy... sigh-cologist! What’s that? What for? He just wants to do things his way. If only he could have an Igloo of his own, things would be much easier. What can he do to stop his dream from melting away?

The Distance of Things (A Distância das Coisas)

Pedro is a fourteen year-old boy who lost his father while still very young, and just received the bad news that his mother had died in a car accident. He has no choice but to live with his uncle, and,

suspicious, he believes that adults are hiding something from him. Investigating his uncle’s privacy, he discovers secrets that will change his whole life. Flávio Carneiro won the Barco a Vapor Award, from Editora SM, and has been awarded the Jabuti Prize 2009.

Dear Ronaldo (Prezado Ronaldo)

In Dear Ronaldo, Artur, is a boy who plays for a children’s football team and is a big fan of Ronaldo (“Fenômeno”). He thinks of be-coming a football player when he grows up, but also dreams of being a writer. He starts an imaginary correspondence with Ronaldo, telling him of passages in his daily life in which the rela-tionship between football and literature is subtly delineated through his questions, longings and joys.

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Girls’ Bedroom (Quarto de Menina)

Girls’ Bedroom, praised as “Highly-Recommended” by the FNLIJ, tells the sto-ry of a girl lost in the age between childhood and adolescence, with a heart full of questions, doubts

and pain. Daughter of divorced parents, she has made of her bedroom a secret heaven, in which she confi des her feelings to dolls and a cricket that lives in a fl ower pot.

L I V I A G A R C I A - R O Z ADear Friends,

It is a great pleasure to present to you ouragency’s highlights for Bologna, 2010.You are also welcome to visit our sitewww.agenciariff.com.br, where you willfi nd further information, foreign sales listand sample translations. Please feel free to contact us at anytime should you need any help.Contacts can be made directly or throughour dear friends Anne-Marie Vallatanne-marie@amvagencialiteraria.comand Nicole Witt n.witt@mertin-litag.de

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Adélia PRADO

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Érico VERÍSSIMO

Flávia Lins e SILVA

Flávio CARNEIRO

Janaína MICHALSKI

Joana PENNA

Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI

Livia GARCIA-ROZA

Luciana SAVAGET

Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO

Lya LUFT

Marcio VASSALO

Maria Valéria REZENDE

Marina COLASANTI

Mario QUINTANA

Rachel de QUEIROZ

Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ

Sylvia ORTHOF

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The Little Saint/Comedies to Be Read in School

(O Santinho / Comédias para se ler na Escola)

Comedies to Be Read in School (Comédias para se ler na esco-

la) is a collection selected by Ana Maria Machado, present-ing some of his best pieces, chosen especially for the young: language or style exercises, comedies of errors, small fables or memories certain to inspire the love for books. As for the stories collected in The Little Saint (O Santinho), they are all about school, bringing back to life a time all readers, includ-ing adults, still keep in a small corner of their mind.

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Children Think(Criança Pensa)

With sensibility and hu-mour, Lya Luft and her son Eduardo Luft, philosopher, tell the delightful adventure of three children that learn how wonderful it is to grow up questioning the world, al-ways trying to ask the essential questions, even though the answers might not always be found.

When I Was Little(Quando eu era Pequena)

Inspired by the author´s own childhood, it recounts the mem-ories of a young provincial girl during World War II. In the simple life with her siblings, her

grandfather and her parents, the girl discovers poetry. And the writer shows how ordinary words can move and bring back what time took away.

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Where the Sun Can Not Reach(Onde o Sol não Alcança)

Where the Sun Can Not Reach tells the story of the friendship between Nana and Ana Paula, and tells of the wall that keeps them closer instead of tearing them apart. Journalist Janaína Michalski’s touching debut is colourfully illustrated by Alê Abreu.

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23 Tales of a Traveller (23 Histórias de um Viajante)

23 Tales of a Traveller, tells of a knight who arrives at a kingdom where a prince lives in isolation. Fascinated by the traveller’s sto-ries, the prince de-cides to join him in

a trip through his own lands. As they proceed, and as the travellers unravels his tales, the author shows how narrative itself can be a journey, while her poetical style takes readers on their own voyages. Like a box containing other boxes, her tales, astonishing for their mythical elements and fas-cinatingly modern, overlap and superimpose each other to forge a common meaning.

Twelve Kings and the Girl in the Labyrinth of Wind (Doze Reis e a Moça no Labirinto do Vento)

Twelve Kings and the Girl in the Labyrinth of Wind presents thirteen fairy tales which weave a magical and timeless uni-verse, symbolically interacting with the unconscious through subjects such as a princess who lost her own refl ection.

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Uólace and João Victor (Uólace e João Victor)

This is Rosa’s most celebrat-ed book for children and exposes the social divide in Brazil through a day in the life of two young children living in the same big city, but who never met. Uólace

lives in a slum, while João Victor is a typical middle-class boy. As the story develops, the author shows that, although set apart by a strong social barrier, both strive to survive and be happy in the same way. The book won the João de Barro award and was adapted as part of a TV series directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and aired on Globo.

Seven Bones and a Curse (Sete Ossos e uma Maldição)

Eleven hair-raising short-stories are told in Seven Bones and a Curse. But fear does not paralyse here, on the contrary: it makes you want to turn page after page, quicker and quicker - but not without taking a deep breath fi rst.

Operation Rescue in Bagdad(Operação Resgate em Bagdad)

When American troops invaded Bagdad in 2003, an ancient secret fraternity, set up a conspiracy: they wanted to save the Arabian literature treasures and characters from the barbarities of war. Operation Rescue in Bagdad blends in the Iraq War events with the fantastic world of A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, as a message to children about the always invincible need to keep dreams alive.

The Hidden Side (A Face Oculta)

Humiliation, hostility and defa-mation compose a three-term equation named bullying or cy-berbullying. Luciana knows this

well enough. She stays up late on the computer, chatting with friends, and when Marcelo chooses her as his target and starts to send her offensive messages through her mobile phone, she does not know how to deal with this unknown enemy.

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Following the Snail’s Trace(No Risco do Caracol)

Nature always has new beauties to show. That is what the haikai of this book convey. In circular, linked-verse form struc-ture, some of the vivacity of northeastern Brazil captures the readers and lead them through the silver trace of a snail.

Riff Agency’s Classic AuthorsCarlos Drummond de Andrade, Erico Verissimo, Mario Quintana, Rachel de Queiroz and Sylvia Orthof are our classic authors that have been delighting and forming gen-erations in Brazil.

ValentinaValentina is a princess who lives in a castle on top of a hill. She is a pretty girl who laughs eas-ily and leads a happy life with her parents, her garden and the splendid view from her window. Every day, her mother and father

go down the hill early in the morning to work, only to come back at the end of the day. Work? But aren’t her parents a king and queen? Valentina is another lovely tale created by one of the most celebrated Brazilian writers for children, beautifully illustrated by Suppa.

Princess Tiana and Frog Gaze (A Princesa Tiana e o Sapo Gazé)

Princesses, queuing up suitors and frogs belong to the popular imaginary. Through these characters, Marcio Vas-sallo tells us the tale of Princess Tiana and Frog Gazé, in hilarious passages, un-til it reaches its climax – the kiss. After the kiss, the author surprises us with a charming ending. Mariana Massarani’s illustrations stress the text’s sense of humour so readers can have fun page after page.

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All Things Want to Be Other Things

(Todas as Coisas Querem Ser Outras Coisas)

The story takes place inside João’s bedroom. There things can be anything and many worlds exist.

This book is a great tribute to children’s imagination and the amazing power to perceive that everything can be seen in a different way.

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how wonderful it is to grow up questioning the world, al-

The Little Saint/Comedies