Entre a materialidade e a literalidade na literatura infantil: descrições de um livro “indestrutível”

Abstract

This text analyzes the editorial and textual features of the book Baby Faces, by Kate Merritt, with the purpose of describing the aspects that stimulate reading from the illustrations of children’s faces. Different emotions are represented through images, printed on differentiated and resistant kind of paper, which makes the book a toy, a fun object able to interaction. It was developed a qualitative research, of documental analysis, which allowed observing the means and instruments used in the composition of the book in analyses. As a theoretical basis, the research was held on the studies of Hunt, Souza and Girotto on reading, literature and childhood, as well as on the studies of Chartier, Darnton and Mckenzie on the materiality of the printed book. It was concluded that the use of images allows children a great-er familiarity and interest in reading, as it promotes reading comprehension by approaching the child’s reality and his imagination, establishing relations of meaning.Keywords: Book; materiality of the book; children’s literature.