nonfiction books for children: aetonormativity and alterity

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues Martins, Marcus Vinicius
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpi.br/index.php/lingedusoc/article/view/3983
• topic: Livro infantil; Não ficção; Aetonormatividade; Alteridade; Infância; Libro infantil; No ficción; Aetonormatividad; Alteridad; Infancia; Children's book; Nonfiction; Aetonormativity; Otherness; Childhood

The purpose of this article is discuss the relationship between children and adults in the nonfiction book circuit. For this, we present an overview of childhood perceptions, utilizing Nikolajeva concept of Aetonormativity (2009) to illustrate how many editorial productions establish a vertical and unequal relationship between adults and children in the textual and visual dimension. In this sense, we present two books that follow this aetonormative perspective, “Água” by “Programa Conta pra mim” (2020) and “Mundinho Azul” by Ingrid Bellinghausen (2011). In contrast, we elaborate some proposals for discussion, such as idea of sharing information from the perspective of otherness, in this way, children and adults share information and experiences of the world, based on their asymmetries and similarities, in search of building a network of connections and knowledge between humans and non-humans. From this perspective, we present two nonfiction books “Web” by Isabelle Simler (2018) and “Arboles” by Lemniscates (2015), that incorporate a blend of languages and texts, inviting readers to share knowledge about the world, always bearing in mind inventiveness and sensitivity as potential signs to be followed by everyone, adults and children, who intend to produce, elaborate, mediate and read a nonfiction book.