Dialogues between picturebooks for children and childhood sciences and cultures

This article brings reflections on contemporary children’s literature in dialogue with the childhood views originated in social sciences and in comparative studies of the Portuguese language. These studies are associated to the hearing of children’s voices and to analytical readings of illustrated books. In the field of social sciences, Daniel Goldin’s, David Buckingham’s and Manuel Sarmento’s research works are here imbricated. The titles we examined were selected during a visit to Portugal in 2022, plus the Brazilian work Inês (2015) by Roger Mello and Mariana Massarani, all of them examples of a literary production that comprehends the young reader’s full interpretation and re-creation skills. The analysis of this material composes a critical fortune, contextualized to demonstrate a net of formation agents of multidisciplinary character that are transformed into plurisignificant crafts in dialogue with child cultures.