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ADRIANA FALCÃO
FLAVIA LINS E SILVA
The Igloo
Adriana FALCÃO
Carlos DRUMMOND de ANDRADE
(O Iglu)
Érico VERÍSSIMO
Flávia Lins e SILVA
Flávio CARNEIRO
Janaína MICHALSKI
Joana PENNA
Explanation Freak
Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI
(Mania de Explicação)
Livia GARCIA-ROZA
A poetical dictionary through which a girl tries to simplify
the world, Explanation Freak proposes inventive definitions
for all kinds of words. This light and lyrical poetical classification confirms that Adriana Falcão is one of the most
original voices of Brazilian literature today.
Luciana SAVAGET
Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO
Lya LUFT
Marcio VASSALO
Maria Valéria REZENDE
Marina COLASANTI
Fair Moon & Apollo 11
Mario QUINTANA
(Luna Clara & Apolo 11)
Rachel de QUEIROZ
Fair Moon & Apollo 11 tells of love’s comings and goings with a simple plot and a
sophisticated structure, of astounding creativity.
Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ
Sylvia ORTHOF
Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure to present to you our
agency’s highlights for Bologna, 2010.
You are also welcome to visit our site
www.agenciariff.com.br, where you will
find further information, foreign sales list
and sample translations.
Please feel free to contact us at any
time should you need any help.
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Arte: Fatima Agra
Lucia Riff, Laura Riff, João Paulo Riff,
Roberto Matos & Alessandra Missagia
Agência Riff – Rio de Janeiro
Ilustrações de Marina Colasanti
www.agenciariff.com.br
Pilar loves travelling. Her series of books
is well known in Brazil. Now she keeps a
diary, describing every moment of her first
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 first represented illustrator.
The Distance of Things
Girls’ Bedroom
(A Distância das Coisas)
(Quarto de Menina)
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.
Girls’ Bedroom, praised as
“Highly-Recommended”
by the FNLIJ, tells the story 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 confides her feelings
to dolls and a cricket that lives in a flower pot.
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 becoming 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 relationship between football and literature is subtly delineated
through his questions, longings and joys.
phone: 55(21)2287-6299
fax: 55(21)2267-6393
(Diário de Pilar na Grécia)
LIVIA GARCIA-ROZA
(Prezado Ronaldo)
BRASIL
Pilar’s Diary Of Greece
FLAVIO CARNEIRO
Dear Ronaldo
Many thanks,
John’s parents are divorced and
now he has to talk to a... psy... sighcologist! 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?
Avenida Calógeras no 6 / sala 1007
20030-070 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
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.
2 0 10
Adélia PRADO
MARCIO VASSALLO
MARINA COLASANTI
ROSA AMANDA STRAUSZ
ADÉLIA PRADO
Valentina
23 Tales of a Traveller
Uólace and João Victor
Valentina is a princess who lives
in a castle on top of a hill. She
is a pretty girl who laughs easily 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.
(23 Histórias de um Viajante)
(Uólace e João Victor)
When I Was Little
(Quando eu era Pequena)
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 stories, the prince decides 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 fascinatingly modern, overlap and superimpose each other to
forge a common meaning.
This is Rosa’s most celebrated 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.
Inspired by the author´s own
childhood, it recounts the memories 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.
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 Vassallo tells us the tale of Princess Tiana
and Frog Gazé, in hilarious passages, until 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.
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 universe, symbolically interacting with the unconscious through
subjects such as a princess who lost her own reflection.
(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.
LUCIANA SAVAGET
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.
Where the Sun
Can Not Reach
(Onde o Sol não
Alcança)
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 first.
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.
LUIS FERNANDO
VERISSIMO
MARIA TEREZA
MALDONADO
Riff Agency’s Classic Authors
The Little Saint/Comedies
to Be Read in School
The Hidden Side
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Erico Verissimo, Mario
Quintana, Rachel de Queiroz and Sylvia Orthof are our
classic authors that have been delighting and forming generations in Brazil.
LETÍCIA WIERSHOWSKI
All Things Want to Be
Other Things
JANAÍNA MICHALSKI
(O Santinho / Comédias
para se ler na Escola)
Comedies to Be Read in School
(Comédias para se ler na escola) is a collection selected by Ana Maria Machado, presenting 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, including adults, still keep in a small corner of their mind.
LYA LUFT
Children Think
(Criança Pensa)
With sensibility and humour, 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, always trying to ask the essential questions, even though the
answers might not always be found.
(A Face Oculta)
Humiliation, hostility and defamation compose a three-term
equation named bullying or cyberbullying. 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.
MARIA VALERIA REZENDE
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 structure, some of the vivacity
of northeastern Brazil captures the readers and lead them
through the silver trace of a snail.