Dinossauros na literatura infantojuvenil brasileira

Abstract

This paper presents a narrative, graphical, and aleontological analysis of youthful Brazilian literature books that include characters of dinosaurs in its tram: O dinossauro que fazia au- au of Pedro Bandeira (1983), A misteriosa volta dos dinossauros of Arnaldo Niskier (1988), O dinossauro: mais uma história ecológica of Leo Cunha and Marcus Tafuri (1995), and No tempo dos dinossauros of Álvaro Cardoso Gomes (1997). All these four books have unpretentious graphical projects, what it does not hinder that one of them is a publishing success, with 28 editions in 30 years: O dinossauro que fazia au-au. In general way, they show a textual architecture with direct and informal language , with many dialogues, sufficiently fast rhythm, and linear narratives, three of them with typical quinary structure and positive outcomes. The protag onists are predominantly masculine, as well as scientists, being the fe male personages with secondary performances. The books with hot colours layers, that create proximity and received, correspond to those that have the one more edition ; in contrast of th e layer books with cold colours, that still are in the first edition. The majority of books can be classified as illustrated book; however the book No tempo dos dinossauros is better classified as a book with illustrations . O dinossauro que fazia au - au is a book that would be welcome in lessons of sciences, for containing interesting information and stimulating quarrels on scientific controvers y questions . In A misteriosa volta dos dinossauros and No tempo dos dinossauros can be observed chacacters of dinos aurs th at lived together of distant times and continental areas, with predominance of North American genera, passing a scientifically inadequate vision of life and continents. In any book is mentioned one Brazilian dinosaur . T his absence is partially justi fying for the discovery of the majority of them ( ten of the nine teen known species ) in the present century. Subjects as the size of the dinosaurs, its birth, alimentary habits, and footprints are present with contradictory informations and sometimes scient ically incorrect , what it could be cured with the assessor ship of a paleontologist, without this affected the fictional plot. Youthful books that deal with dinosaurs can contribute for the scientific spreading, for the best agreement of the past life regi ster and the dynamic processes that act in the Earth, and paleontologists could be more active in assisting this task.