José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato

José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was born on the 18^th April 1882; he died on the 4^th July 1948. He was one of the Brazilian most influential writers. He is most known for the children’s books that he wrote, which are set on the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, though previously a good fiction writer of the country and also a translator and an art critic.

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He is a founder of one of the publishing houses of the country called Companhia Editora Nacional and he was also a fan of nationalism.

José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was born in Taubate, in the city of Sao Paulo. He is known for his work in the educational, but entertainment books for the children of the country, and that made up half of his production, the other half of his production and a good number of novels and short stories for the adult readers of the country.

Biography

Most of the books written by Renato Monteiro were set in the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, a little farm in the countryside and they featured the elderly ranch owner called Dona Benta, her two grandchildren, Lúcia and Pedrinho and a black servant  as well as a cook.

Most the books written by Renato Monteiro are educational, and are all teaching things via the mouth of the old woman called Mrs Benta and by the small questions that are coming from the mouth of her small audience.

Renato Monteiro manufactured some rich crossovers with the use of elements from several sources like that of the movies, literature, cartoons and the mythology, always widely imaginative like in his books like A Chave do Tamanho and A Reforma da Natureza, which was the place he talked on the implications of all humans abruptly reducing in size.

Renato Monteiro’s bboks were turned to popular TV programs of the country and gthey included the five series of the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo adventures, the first in the year 1952 on the TV of of the country called TV Tupi, the second on the TV Cultura in the year 1964 and in the year 1967 on the Rede Bandeirantes, the other on the Rede Globo in the year 1977 and the last version of the series on the Rede Globo also  in the year 2001.

Renato Monteiro was also a popular publisher and a journalist of the country and he wrote often for many magazines and newspapers of the country and he was known and respected as a critic of the country also.

Bibliography

Children books

Ø  A Menina do Narizinho Arrebitado (The Girl With the Turned Up Nose) (1920)

Ø  Reinações de Narizinho (Adventures of Little Nose) (1931)

Ø  Viagem ao Céu and O Saci (Voyage to the Sky and The Saci) (1932)

Ø  Caçadas de Pedrinho and Hans Staden (Pete's Hunting and Hans Staden) (1933)

Ø  História do Mundo para as Crianças (History of the World for Children) (1933)

Ø  Memórias da Emília and Peter Pan (Emilia's Autobiography and Peter Pan) (1936)

Ø  Emília no País da Gramática and Aritmética da Emília (Emilia in the Grammar Country and Emilia's Math Book) (1934)

Ø  Geografia de Dona Benta (Mrs. Benta's Geography) (1935)

Ø  Serões de Dona Benta and História das invenções (Night Chatting With Mrs. Benta and Histories of Inventions) (1937)

Ø  D. Quixote das Crianças (D. Quixote of Children) (1936)

Ø  O Poço do Visconde (The Viscount's Well) (1937)

Ø  Histórias de tia Nastácia (Aunt Anastacia's Tales) (1937)

Ø  O Picapau Amarelo and A Reforma da Natureza (The Yellow Woodpecker Farm and Reforming Nature) (1939)

Ø  O Minotauro (The Minotaur) (1937)

Ø  A Chave do Tamanho (The Size Switch) (1942)

Ø  Fábulas (Fables) (1942)

Ø  Os Doze Trabalhos de Hércules (The Twelve Trials of Hercules) (2 vols) (1944)

Adult books

Ø  Urupês

Ø  Cidades Mortas

Ø  Negrinha

Ø  Idéias de Jeca Tatu

Ø  A Onda Verde

Ø  O Presidente Negro

Ø  Na Antevéspera

Ø  O Escândalo do Petróleo and Ferro

Ø  Mr. Slang e o Brasil and Problema Vital

Ø  América

Ø  Mundo da Lua and Miscelânea

Ø  A Barca de Gleyre (2 vols)

Collections

Ø  Prefácios e entrevistas

Ø  Literatura do Minarete (*)

Ø  Conferências, artigos e crônicas (*)

Ø  Cartas escolhidas (2 vols) (*)

Ø  Críticas e outras Notas (*)

Ø  Cartas de Amor (*)

(*) Published posthumously.

Translations

Ø  Kim, by Rudyard Kipling – undated translation

Ø  Black Beauty, by Anne Sewell – undated translation

Ø  Madame Curie, by Ève Curie – undated translation

Ø  Grimm's Fairy Tales, by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm – undated translation

Ø  On Education, Especially in Early Childhood, by Bertrand Russell – undated translation

Ø  The Story of Civilization – Part III: Caesar and Christ, by Will Durant – undated translation

Ø  Just Patty, by Jean Webster – undated translation (probably 1942)

Ø  Les Travailleurs de la Mer, by Victor Hugo – 1925

Ø  La main du défunt, by Alfredo Possolo Hogan (wrongfully credited to Alexandre Dumas) – 1925

Ø  My Life and Work, by Henry Ford – 1926

Ø  Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen, by Hans Staden – 1927

Ø  Andersen's Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen – 1932

Ø  White Fang, by Jack London – 1933

Ø  The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling – 1933

Ø  The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London – 1934

Ø  The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle – 1934

Ø  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain – 1934

Ø  Dear Enemy, by Jean Webster – 1934

Ø  The Call of the Wild, by Jack London – 1935

Ø  Cleopatra, by E. Barrington – 1935

Ø  Little Caesar, by W. R. Burnett – 1935

Ø  Scarface, by Armitage Trail – 1935

Ø  Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll – 1936

Ø  Tarzan at the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – 1936

Ø  Towards the Stars, by H. Dennis Bradley – 1939

Ø  Rebecca (in collaboration with Lígia Junqueira Smith), by Daphne du Maurier – 1940

Ø  My Son, My Son!, by Howard Spring – 1940

Ø  The Story of the Bible, by Hendrik Willem van Loon – 1940

Ø  A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway – 1942

Ø  For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway – 1942

Ø  Sorrell and Son, by Warwick Deeping – 1942

Ø  That Day Alone, by Pierre van Paassen – 1942

Ø  Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter – 1942

Ø  Pollyanna Grows Up, by Eleanor H. Porter – 1942

Ø  Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang – 1942

Ø  One World, by Wendell Willkie – 1943

Ø  The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, by H. G. Wells – 1943

Ø  Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe – 1945

Ø  Lincoln, by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson – 1945

Ø  The Fate of Homo Sapiens, by H. G. Wells – 1945

Ø  The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder – 1946

Ø  A Daughter of the Snows, by Jack London – 1947

Ø  Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi – 1955

Ø  Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville – 1957

Ø  Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar Rice Burroughs – 1959

Ø  Leaf in the Storm (in collaboration with Ruth Lobato), by Lin Yutang – 1959