Um amigo da floresta: Aventuras e descobertas de Silvinho na Amazônia

A friend of the forest: Forrest's adventures and discoveries in the Amazon

     1ª edição
    57 páginas
ISBN: 978-65-01-84218-9

Autoras:

Ana Cecília Nigro Mazzilli Xavier de Mendonça

Maria Teresa Brook

 Mãe e filha - as autoras - transformam suas vivências em histórias que educam, com sensibilidade e propósito. Com atuação da mãe no Brasil e da filha nos Estados Unidos da América, escrevem juntas obras bilíngues, que ampliam horizontes e enriquecem o processo de aprendizagem. Seus livros nascem do desejo de despertar nas crianças a curiosidade, a imaginação, a responsabilidade ambiental e o amor pela leitura, desde os primeiros anos, promovendo, também, o importante contato natural com um segundo idioma.    

The book invites young readers to immerse themselves in a rich and playful world through the adventures of a boy in the Amazon rainforest. In an engaging way, it introduces information about the forest and, above all, fosters a sense of responsibility for its preservation.
It also includes a forest vocabulary section that broadens readers’ knowledge, offering more than information alone: it provides a meaningful and mindful learning experience.

Mother and daughter, the authors transform their life experiences into stories that educate with sensitivity and purpose. With the mother working in Brazil and the daughter in the United States, they collaborate on bilingual books that broaden horizons and enrich the learning process.
Their books are born from a desire to inspire curiosity, imagination, environmental responsibility, and a love of reading in children from an early age, while also fostering natural exposure to a second language.       

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Ana Cecília

Graduating with distinction from the Faculty of Law at Largo de São Francisco of the University of São Paulo, she dedicated herself to Constitutional Law, including an internship at the National Congress in Brasília, and worked in the fields of Real Estate and Environmental Law, contributing to the study that served as the foundation for the Code of Ethics of the São Paulo Real Estate Brokers Council.
She also completed specialization courses in Brazilian History, Ancient History, Literature, Linguistics, and Historical Grammar, with an emphasis on the interpretation of literary texts.

She is the co-author of Well-Seasoned Brazil – Northeast (O Brasil Bem Temperado – Nordeste), a unique work in the history of Brazilian cuisine due to its rich cultural content, as it takes into account the syncretism that forms a fundamental basis of Brazilian identity and culture.
She is also the co-author of Brazilian Flavors (Sabores Brasileiros), a bilingual edition published in celebration of the centennial of the traditional Brazilian company Tramontina.

Maria Teresa

A graduate of the University of São Paulo with a degree in Education, she is certified to teach at all levels of Elementary Education, as well as in School Administration and Supervision, Educational Guidance, and the teaching of pedagogical subjects at the secondary level. An educator for more than 20 years, she has taught in Early Childhood Education and Elementary School, both in public and private schools in Brazil and the United States, and currently teaches middle school students abroad. She is certified as an educator by the State of Florida and regularly participates in educational courses, workshops, and conferences in both Brazil and the United States.

Recipient of the 2018 Lighthouse Award for Best Elementary School Teacher. She has teaching experience in both Brazil and the United States, working in diverse educational settings and enriching her practice through an international perspective.

Nota das Autoras:

As profundas mudanças no Meio Ambiente, acentuadas nos últimos anos, foram as principais motivadoras para o surgimento deste pequeno livro.

O uso indiscriminado e irregular dos recursos naturais tem destruído, contaminado, poluído nossos mananciais, além de ameaçar espécies animais e vegetais...

De fato, nosso propósito maior surgiu do desejo de despertar nas crianças, desde logo, a consciência social da preservação ambiental: um dever que se deve adquirir cedo, para impedir, energicamente, o dano ao ambiente. Para isso acontecer, porém, é necessário que elas passem a conhecer e valorizar aquilo que sabemos que devem cuidar. Aqui, o objetivo não é dar lições de ecologia, mas fazer a criança se apaixonar pela floresta e saber nomear seus animais, plantas e lendas, convidando-a a olhar para a floresta com os olhos do respeito e do deslumbramento: a gente só protege aquilo que conhece.

Incluímos, ao final do livro, um farto vocabulário da floresta com o objetivo de provocar a pesquisa e ampliar o repertório linguístico dos pequenos leitores que costumam gostar das palavras diferentes.

A Amazônia é um universo de descobertas e o livro encontra espaço na leitura em família e na escola, uma vez que são ricos e versáteis os recursos pedagógicos que derivam de suas páginas: o trabalho linguístico nas duas línguas, em aulas de Ciências (biomas) e estudos sociais.

Todos nós, autoridades, adultos, jovens e crianças, somos responsáveis pelo Meio Ambiente e devemos protegê-lo e combater qualquer forma de degradação a ele.

Pretendemos que cada pequeno leitor se sinta um guardião da floresta, que se torne um novo amigo dela, como Silvinho.

Author’s Note

What happens when a child’s curious gaze encounters the vastness of the world’s largest tropical rainforest? Written jointly by mother and daughter, this bilingual book invites young explorers to immerse themselves in the colors, sounds, and mysteries of the forest and to discover that exploring the Amazon means discovering a world far greater than we can imagine.

The profound environmental changes that have intensified in recent years were the primary inspiration for this small book.

The indiscriminate and irresponsible use of natural resources has destroyed, contaminated, and polluted our water sources, while also threatening countless animal and plant species.

Indeed, our greatest purpose arose from the desire to awaken in children, from an early age, a sense of environmental responsibility: a duty that must be learned early in life in order to actively prevent harm to the environment. For this to happen, however, children must first come to know and appreciate what they are called upon to protect. Our goal here is not to teach lessons in ecology, but to help children fall in love with the forest and learn the names of its animals, plants, and legends, inviting them to view it with both wonder and respect. After all, we only protect what we know.

At the end of the book, we have included an extensive forest vocabulary with the aim of encouraging research and expanding the linguistic repertoire of young readers, who often delight in discovering new and unusual words.

The Amazon is a universe of discoveries, and this book has a place both in family reading and in the classroom, as its pages offer rich and versatile educational opportunities: language development in both languages, as well as connections to science lessons (biomes) and social studies.

All of us — authorities, adults, young people, and children — share responsibility for the environment and must work to protect it and combat every form of environmental degradation.