Literatura infantil publicada em Portugal e diálogo intergeracional

Abstract

This paper examines some of the literary representations of grandparents and grandchildren in children"s literature published in Portugal after 2000. Some of these texts are from Portuguese authors; others are from authors that have been translated to Portuguese language. Among the set of selected texts, there are several major semantic features: the intergenerational complicity, the great affection between grandparents and their children and the vision of the elderly as initiators of the younger into the knowledge of world.