Side Effects

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João Manuel Ribeiro (poems) Paulo Stocker (Illustration)

A poet + a cartoonist = Secondary Effects.

That’s how it is: reading these poems by João Manuel Ribeiro can have «Secondary Effects» on readers, especially on the most attentive… Starting with a first part, of 14 poems, entitled «Os Cotovelos da Casa», it continues, in a second part, with 46 poems recorded in a «Notebook of Implications».

In addition to the motifs of the house, where there are ants, a swing, his father’s whistle, the sky of ants, a magusto, love letters and a Christmas wish, he “teases” with the neighbor’s unicorn, the old king, his stepmother and the princess, two men lying on the asphalt, a certain beggar, the chess players, the madmen, the shepherd, an unemployed woman, the cats, a vengeful paralytic, a hobbyhorse, a strange girl, the whale of a certain prophet, an accordionist, the wolves, a poet and the truly happy…

Accompanying the poems are the drawings by the Brazilian Paulo Stocker that surprise by their simplicity and (assumed) naivety…

A book of poems for teenagers and young people with the explicit intention of bothering…

Age: +12

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Datasheet: Datasheet: ISBN: 9789895485833 Language: Portuguese Binding: Softcover Pages: 78 Thematic classification: Books in Portuguese > Literature > Youth Poetry

Author: João Manuel Ribeiro (1968- ) is a poet, writer, editor and researcher. As well as reading and writing, he likes to study. He has a PhD in Educational Sciences and a Master’s degree 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 Children’s and Young People’s Books and Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He also has a Master’s degree in Theology from the Catholic University of Porto. Considered “one of the most promising authors of poetry for children”, he has 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. He is represented in school textbooks, grammars and activity books. He loves visiting schools and meeting his readers.

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Weight1,0 kg
Dimensions135 × 210 × 5 cm
Age

+12

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