Trinta-por-uma-linha

by Carina Novo

Sofia is a girl who loves to play, dream and run with her long and elegant legs.

But like any other child, she has fears, and hers is very common.

She runs and hides behind her parents t protect herself every time she sees dogs.

Always with her eyes wide open so as to not let any canine come close to her.

Her parents and friends try to help, but every attempt fails, until a certain day something unexpected happens…

In this book you will find:

How to overcome a fear of dogs!

How fears, even when small, seem gigantic!

How friends can help you!

How dogs are your friends!

How animals deserve your respect and kindness!

Details: 32 pages; Hardcover

Author: Carina Novo - I was born in the city of love and perhaps that's why there was a lot of love in my house, in a family where playfullness, joy and laughter were part of the daily routine. And, of course, the books, books that were everywhere. At the age of two, I landed in Viana do Castelo where I lived surrounded by a horde of animals: dogs, cats, ducks, pigs, turkeys, birds, hamsters, sheep, rabbits and chickens, which would serve as inspiration for my stories. In my childhood I spent twice as many hours a day playing in the street, running through the fields, jumping over walls to go play with the neighbours, running barefoot through the streams, accumulating memories that made me a tremendously happy child, attached to notebooks where I wrote my stories. Years later I received a Margarida (daisy) and love became an inexplicable and infinite feeling. But my daughter, born in the city, didn't live surrounded by animals, perhaps that's why she was afraid of dogs, a feeling that would set the tone for the theme of my first book. With her I delved back into my childhood, which is why my project «Carina Novo – Histórias para ler e contar» was born. May life help me to always keep the child in me present and may it allow me to write many books like this and tell dreamy stories like those I heard in my childhood.

Illustrator: Dina Sachse – Born in 1979 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, Dina has a bachelor’s degree in Communication Design and works as an artist, graphic designer and illustrator. With her particular drawing style, Dina Sachse has participated and won many awards.

by Manuela Vieria

The problem of water scarcity and the hope we can change the world for the best, in Joni’s voice, an eight-year-old child, are lived intensely. More than dreaming, the little boy showed how much we should persist and work to accomplish our dreams. Action. Action, even if when we are asleep. Joni travelled in a dream, had contact with the other side of the world, asked for help until the rooster sang.

A breathtaking ending and, who knows, perhaps after reading this book, you'll alwa

ys remember to turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth.

Details: 36 pages; Hardcover.

Author: My name is Manuela Vieira, I am a mother and grandmother. I was born in Angola, daughter of Cape Verdeans. I grew up connected to the warm weather, Creole, the smell of the earth wet from heavy rains and eating mango, curled up in one of the mango tree trunks. Since I was a child, I have been interested in education. It scared me to see some students being mistreated. Very early on I became angry with the God of religions and worried about finding Him to understand His justice. I liked reading, writing compositions in the Portuguese Language discipline. I spoke above all about people, about the need to be happy. Some moments were recorded in my memory when I joined in the nostalgia of some of Florbela Espanca's poems. I witnessed the great political change in Angola, having come to Portugal at the age of fourteen. After finishing high school, in search of specialized education in the field of gymnastics, I left for the former USSR where I graduated in Physical Education and Sports from the Central University of Physical Culture in Moscow/ equivalence from the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Porto. Today, my passion for education continues to burn. Not only formal education through books, but, above all, character education.

Illustrator: Paulo Henriques

by Angela Antunes

Little Martim is inside a story and wants to get out, because he feels trapped. To do so, Martim asks for help halfway across the world: a jumping grasshopper, a paper plane, a balloon, a bottle, a turtle, a whale, an ET, and many others…

Will Martim be able to find the one who will free him from the story?

Probably yes!

Who will it be?

And how will Martim leave the story?

You will have to read the book to find out this (and much more).

Details: 48 pages; Hardcover.

Author: My name is Angela, I'm a computer engineer and my day-to-day work revolves around programming web applications. A few years ago, I discovered that writing for children makes me escape the daily routine and go to adventures where there are no limits. When writing, I broaden my horizons and unleash my creativity in search of another self, where adventure surpasses all sensations and the limits disappear and give wings to freedom. Writing for children began as a game to tell an adventure I had on the Caminho de Santiago. Then it became a challenge that I really enjoyed, a passionate discovery of creating stories that could inspire and delight children. Writing for children is more than telling stories, it is a journey that allows me to discover myself, flying through the realm of imagination. With each story I create, there are new places to explore and new characters that come to life and face exciting challenges. Writing for children is just that, the freedom to dream, invent, create and shape worlds where there are no limits. When writing for children we have the opportunity to convey meaningful messages in a simple and receptive way for the child, awakening curiosity and introducing the seeds of important values. Writing for children, for me, becomes a connection with my inner child, who dreams of extraordinary adventures and enchanted worlds. Anything can be possible. It's like a treasure map, full of challenges, where the charm of the path is more important than getting to the treasure itself. A children's book becomes an adventure without having to leave your seat, as it allows us to have wings to fly.

Illustrator: Oscar Sánchez Requena – born in Madrid in 1976, but currently living in Portugal, Oscar Sánchez Requena is an independent photographer, graphic designer and illustrator.

by Lucinda Cunha

Satoru is a boy who lives in Japan, on a village located between the foot of Mount Fuji and a cursed forest – the Forest of Murmurs – of which many scary stories are told.

It was with great grandmother, the oldest woman in the region, that Satoru learnt the art of folding paper (ori kami) and making the most amazing sculptures. His favourite is the Stork (Tsuru), symbol of happiness and good luck. One day, Satoru is lured to the Forest of Murmurs, where no one has ever been able to come back from.

What will happen to the little boy? Will he be able to find his way back home? Are the stories true or nothing but legends?

Embark on this story and live a surprising adventure with a child that will face his fears and survive to tell the tale.

Details: 36 pages ; Hardcover.

Author: Lucinda Cunha was born in Germany in 1973. She has a bachelor’s degree in Teaching of Portuguese and French as well as a master’s in Portuguese Culture. Native to Vila Pouca de Aguiar, she now works and lives in Guimarães. She has always been fascinated by the word and literature and some of her favourite authors are José Saramago, Eça de Queirós, Padre António Vieira, Jorge Amado, José Eduardo Agualusa, Luís Sepúlveda and Isabel Allende.

She likes to read and write and is starting her own career as a writer without forgetting her job as a teacher.

Illustrator: Paulo Salvador Lopes – born in Maceda, municipality of Ovar, in the year 1974. He is a 1stand 2nd cycle teacher in Visual and Technological Education. Since always he has been connected to drawing and painting and other ways of artistic expression, participating in many exhibitions both individual and collective.

by Ana Oliveira

The broom is worn out, it almost doesn’t have hair.

Tired of sweeping away so much, she decides to go on strike.

In solidarity, while they themselves were tired of working, the mops, cloths, pots, pans, frying pan and even the rooster, that foresees his end in a huge pot, join the broom on a demonstration so loud that it drives the old lady insane.

Details: 32 pages ; Hardcover.

Author: Ana Oliveira was born in Arrifana, municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, and lives in S. João da Madeira. She studied at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, where she completed the Modern Languages ​​and Literatures course – Portuguese and French variant. She is a Portuguese teacher and librarian at the João da Silva Correia School Group. She is the author of the short stories: Do Cinzento ao Azul Celeste; O santo guloso; “Palavras à solta” (included in the anthology Papá, só mais uma); “Nyambura” (included in the anthology 39 poemas e contos contra o racismo - 1st place, in the poetry/story competition against racism, promoted by the High Commission for Migrations); In a nutshell (micro-stories in 77 words). Manages a personal blog where she publishes part of her literary production: www.livro-leitor.blogspot.com.

Illustrator: Cátia Vide – She was born in 1990 in Porto, but her life was spent between different cities both in Portugal and Spain. She has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and has a post-graduate’s degree in Illustration. She has published 8 of her works and won many awards.

by Maria da Conceição Vicente

This is the story of a boy that, with the help of his grandparents, and by his own experience, learnt that “wanting” is not a synonym of “having”. Thanks to a carefully prepared "financial plan", which includes the dog Dóri and the little pig Bolota, grandparents and grandson are able to transform wishes into reality and feel the pleasure of their efforts being rewarded.

Book recommended to help projects related to Citizenship Education on 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade.

Details: 48 pages; Paperback.

Author: Maria da Conceição Sousa Vicente has a degree in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she also took the Pedagogical Sciences Course. She was a French and Portuguese teacher (2nd and 3rd cycles) and held various positions within the scope of school management and curricular articulation. She was responsible for the school library, having coordinated several projects linked to the promotion of reading and the introduction of ICT in this area. For several years she was involved in teacher training, as an internship supervisor, in the different versions supervised by the Ministry of Education or integrated into the teaching degrees at the University of Aveiro. She received the Tabula Rasa Prize – 1st Fátima Literary Festival, in the category of Children's Literature, for her book Do querer ao ter há muita conta a fazer, ed. Trinta Por Uma Linha. She is the author of several books within the scope of support materials for the study of Portuguese (2nd and 3rd cycles) and Citizenship Education. She has been a member of the jury for the Illustrated Children's Story Prize Correntes d’ Escritas Porto Editora, as a representative of this publisher.

Illustrator: Catarina Pinto – Catarina Pinto is a portuguese illustrator. She has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design by the IPCA and has since then worked with textile as graphic designer at Fermir.

by Paula Margarida Pinho

These are the memories of a philosophical kitten!

Linda is a determined and energetic kitten, full of dreams and projects. She is still young, but already knows what she wants! She imagines a future where she will be a ballerina and a writer. And she knows that it’s best to start now preparing. To become a ballerina, she does exercises and acrobatic stunts. To become a writer, she writes. And she decided that, to launch herself, there is nothing better than to write her own childhood memories.

The reader is invited to accompany Linda’s story, told in first person, from her birth up to her four months. You will see that this kitten had no easy childhood! Her mother was a stray cat and so, Lisa and her brothers were exposed to all kinds of dangers and seemed destined to a harsh life , in a constant fight for survival. This kitten as the weakest of the litter, and hid inside her a secret heartbreak: she thought her brothers were more beautiful than her. Besides, Linda seemed to attract all sorts of troubles.

What will happen to this kitten? Will she be able to overcome the struggles, grow and develop herself until she fulfils her dreams?

This story is no fairytale. On the contrary, everything is very much real. However, Linda's words manage to involve us and draw us into a special universe, mixed with naivety, fantasy and optimism. We are invited to explore it with pleasure, guided by a sensitive, adventurous and quite philosophical kitten, who tries to understand the world and live her life intensely.

Details: 58 pages; Paperback.

Author: Paula Margarida Pinho was born in Vale de Cambra, where she lives. With a degree in Modern Languages ​​and Literatures, from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, and a master's degree in Multidisciplinary Portuguese Studies (literature aspect), from Universidade Aberta, she is a teacher at the Búzio School Group, in Vale de Cambra, where she has taught Portuguese , Portuguese Literature and Literature Classics, for high school classes. She has been writing for many years, dedicating herself mainly to poetic texts, but also to other textual genres (narratives, reflections, diaries, memories). She published the books of poems Poesia em Tempo de Prosas (2022, e-book format) and Sistema Solar (2003, Editorial 100). Also in the area of ​​poetry, she has won some awards and participated in several anthologies, magazines and literary and cultural sessions.

Illustrator: Elizabeth Leite – Born in Venezuela in 1982, Elizabeth came to live in Portugal when she was 7 years old. She has a bachelor’s degree in Painting and post-graduate degree’s in both Aesthetic Communication and Teaching of Visual Arts. Besides being a painter and illustrator, she is also a teacher since 2006.

by João Manuel Ribeiro

Do you know the plant known as the dandelion? The one you blow after asking if your father is bald or not?

While blowing these 54 micro-stories you will have to decide.

- if you are bald to know that the destiny made is from small stories.

- or if you believe that, even if small, these short stories can make your hair stand up.

And then, bald or hairy, you can’t dismiss your eyes from admiring Soraia Oliveira’s beautiful illustrations.

Finaly, to the hair and eyes you will have to add the mouth as to be able to blow (read aloud) these micro-stories to your friends, classmates, parents and teachers.

These micro-stories were written while at creative writing workshops with the 4th and 6th grade students from Municipality of Baião and Amarante. Every time I asked a student to write a text on a certain topic, I too would sit and write my version of what I asked the students for.

Seeing as time was scarce, the short stories had to be brief and funny, as to be read to the little writers from whom I learnt so much.

They are now here on this book so that you can be inspired and also venture into writing micro-stories like these ones (or totally different).

Details: 108 pages; Paperback.

Author: João Manuel Ribeiro (1968- ) is a poet, writer, editor and researcher. In addition to reading and writing, he enjoys studying, having a PhD in Educational Sciences and a master’s in Pedagogical Supervision and Training of Trainers, from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. He has a master's degree in books and children's and youth literature, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has also a master's degree and a degree in Theology from the Catholic University of Porto. Being considered as «one of the most promising authors of poetry for children», he published more than five dozen books of Children's and Young People's Literature, divided between poetry and narrative. He is the director of A Casa do João – Revista de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil and publishes critical texts on the blog andancasdopoeta.blogspot.com. He is represented in School Manuals, Grammars and Activity Books, some of them from Porto Editora. He loves visiting schools and meeting his readers.

Illustrator: Soraia Oliveira – A Portuguese illustrator living in Braga. She has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design by IPCA and a master’s in Illustration and Animation by the same faculty. She has a deep love for children’s books that led her not only to collect them, but also illustrate them.

by Maria Teresa Portal

The adventure begins with the four getting to know the EB23 they will attend. On the day of the presentation, they meet the class director and Visual and Technological Education teacher, José Alverto H. Ribeiro, better known as Beto, half gypsy and architect.

All teachers have nicknames; Gipsy Indian (accompanied Beto since college); the Knowing Witch, Portuguese and Study teacher, runs the Student Support Office and more, which is why she is also known as the Knowing Witch/ Psychologist Witch. Miss Cup, Sapinho, Franguinho, Miss Pílulas…

A teacher, Untuoso, will be the fuse to set everything on fire. He is arrested but manages to escape.

The revival of neo-Nazism appears in force in the village, where chests of Jewish goods were found in the 1st adventure, on the house of Isabel, the heiress of Abandoned House.

Everyone ends up being entangled, in one way or another, in the mysteries that exist in the village.

How and why is Luís almost kidnapped at the school Christmas Party and ends up kidnapped in the end? What will be the outcome? What is Ti Jaquim’s role in the plot? And the gypsy tribe? And why are Ana Luísa, Isabel, Beto, Ti Jaquim and Manolo Hernan himself, chief of the tribe and Beto's adoptive father, targets to be shot down?

Do you like mysteries?

Then you must read this book.

Details: 192 pages; Paperback.

Author: Maria Teresa Portal was born on July 5th, 1955, in Paranhos, Porto. She studied Germanic Philology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, and taught the 9th group, in 77/78, at the Liceu Nacional de Guimarães and the 2nd and 3rd cycles for 42 years, the last 35 at EB2/3 and Caldas das Taipas, where she lives. She's retired. She created «O Pequeno Jornalista», the school newspaper that won 2nd and 3rd places at the School Newspapers Competition in 92/93 and 95/96, maintaining it for 30 years until retiring. She taught Journalism classes, at the Journalism Club, and later at the Journalism and Creative Writing Workshop. She managed the school/group of schools for 25 years, namely as vice-president and deputy director, having received praise in the Diário da República. As a chronicler, she wrote for the regional newspaper O Povo de Guimarães and writes for O Reflexo, the newspaper in the town of Caldas das Taipas. She now wants to dedicate herself to the career as a writer/poet that she left in a drawer while her first occupation was in progress. Many of her stories are published in Jornal Escolar and she read them at schools in the group, namely the Pinheiral Kindergarten. Although its audience is younger, many of its stories are loved by pre- and primary school children.

Illustrator: Paulo Salvador Lopes – born in Maceda, municipality of Ovar, in the year 1974. He is a 1st and 2nd cycle teacher in Visual and Technological Education. Since always he has been connected to drawing and painting and other ways of artistic expression, participating in many exhibitions both individual and collective.

by João Manuel Ribeiro

Did you know that jeans are a symbol of the youth culture?

On the poems Joana’s Jeans by João Manuel Ribeiro, the culture of those who are not children anymore, and yet still not adults, is poetically captured in its paradoxical and contradictory richness.

The search for identity, crushes, flirtations, relationship with parents and school, contradictions and dilemmas, emotions on the surface, personal and professional challenges, dreams and desires, growth, trends, conventions, the digital, the technologies’ influence… are all here poetically read and written with the sensibility of a poet to whom the harshness and irony of the foam of the days doesn’t escape.

These poems were written to be kept on the pocket of the jeans of teens and youngsters but can also have a spot on the parents and educator’s bags.

Whoever reads and rereads this book will:

See themselves in growth (or how they grew)

Identify themselves with many current trends

Learn to grow and accept oneself in the contradictions typical of age and life

Have fun and laugh at yourself

Students in the 2nd and 3rd Cycles (and in High School) will certainly be left with goosebumps while reading this book, such is the power of the poetic word! And you will have complete freedom to say the poems out loud to each other, or to whisper them in your ear or to write them where they can be read or to rewrite them in your own way and according to the rhythm of your hearts!

Long live these poems for adults and teenagers!

Details: 60 pages; Paperback.

Author: João Manuel Ribeiro (1968- ) is a poet, writer, editor and researcher. In addition to reading and writing, he enjoys studying, having a PhD in Educational Sciences and a master’s in Pedagogical Supervision and Training of Trainers, from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. He has a master's degree in books and children's and youth literature, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has also a master's degree and a degree in Theology from the Catholic University of Porto. Being considered as «one of the most promising authors of poetry for children», he published more than five dozen books of Children's and Young People's Literature, divided between poetry and narrative. He is the director of A Casa do João – Revista de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil and publishes critical texts on the blog andancasdopoeta.blogspot.com. He is represented in School Manuals, Grammars and Activity Books, some of them from Porto Editora. He loves visiting schools and meeting his readers.

Rights Sold To: Slovenia, Spain (Castilian and Basque) and North Macedonia

by Maria da Conceição Vicente

The Cicada no longer had the strength to sing! The only alternative to its weak state was to ask for help from Ant who, this time!, took itself out of its care to help it. But is the Ant that exemplary and methodical animal that we are used to knowing? Or beyond its uncompromising selfishness, does it have other secret "evil acts"? If you read this story, you will see that neither the Cicada nor the Ant are what they seem. And you need to be alert!...

Book recommended to help projects related to Citizenship Education on 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade.

Details: 48 pages; Paperback.

Author: Maria da Conceição Sousa Vicente has a degree in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she also took the Pedagogical Sciences Course. She was a French and Portuguese teacher (2nd and 3rd cycles) and held various positions within the scope of school management and curricular articulation. She was responsible for the school library, having coordinated several projects linked to the promotion of reading and the introduction of ICT in this area. For several years she was involved in teacher training, as an internship supervisor, in the different versions supervised by the Ministry of Education or integrated into the teaching degrees at the University of Aveiro. She received the Tabula Rasa Prize – 1st Fátima Literary Festival, in the category of Children's Literature, for her book Do querer ao ter há muita conta a fazer, ed. Trinta Por Uma Linha. She is the author of several books within the scope of support materials for the study of Portuguese (2nd and 3rd cycles) and Citizenship Education. She has been a member of the jury for the Illustrated Children's Story Prize Correntes d’ Escritas Porto Editora, as a representative of this publisher.

Illustrator: Cátia Vidinhas – Born in 1989, Cátia is a designer and illustrator with a graduate degree in Graphic Design and post-graduate degree in Image Design. She later went on to have a master’s in Multimedia. She has illustrated many books published not only in Portugal but also internationally.

by João Manuel Ribeiro

What was supposed to be just a week-long vacation on a beach of Galicia ended up becoming a family’s adventure, “hunt” by a dark tide and, little by little, transformed by a father, named Worst, that understood and helped discovering the importance of options and attitudes for the planets’ sustainability and for a healthier life. Through the hand of Mr. Worst and his naughty family, we are taken to the heart of one of the most relevant themes of our times: ecology. With them we learn, for sure, to think and change some of our behaviours. With him we also become the “Best”. With them we become Eco-Warriors.

Details: 56 pages; Paperback.

Author: João Manuel Ribeiro (1968- ) is a poet, writer, editor and researcher. In addition to reading and writing, he enjoys studying, having a PhD in Educational Sciences and a master’s in Pedagogical Supervision and Training of Trainers, from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. He has a master's degree in books and children's and youth literature, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has also a master's degree and a degree in Theology from the Catholic University of Porto. Being considered as «one of the most promising authors of poetry for children», he published more than five dozen books of Children's and Young People's Literature, divided between poetry and narrative. He is the director of A Casa do João – Revista de Literatura Infantil e Juvenil and publishes critical texts on the blog andancasdopoeta.blogspot.com. He is represented in School Manuals, Grammars and Activity Books, some of them from Porto Editora. He loves visiting schools and meeting his readers.

Illustrator: Bolota – Born in Lisbon, Patrícia Alves, also known by her professional name Bolota, has a bachelor’s degree in Equipment Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She has a great passion for illustration.

Rights Sold to: Spain (Castilian and Galician)