by Maurice Sendak · Kalandraka · tapa dura · ISBN 9789897490828
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«João e mais oito» is a children's counting book by Maurice Sendak, published by Kalandraka in hardback (48 pages, in Portuguese).
João is absorbed in reading when a mouse, a cat, a dog and other characters appear and force him to share his space. One by one they join until they reach ten, and then João bids them farewell in reverse order to regain calm, in an accumulative game of humour and rhythm.
This title belongs to the Nutshell Library series and was originally published in 1962; this Portuguese edition is part of Kalandraka's Clásicos Contemporáneos collection.
Aimed at early readers and family enjoyment, with a playful approach to numbers.
Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak illustrated his own books as well as those by other authors, such as the Little Bear series by Else Holmelund Minarik. He achieved acclaim with Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the first of a trilogy followed by In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). He also designed sets for operas, notably Mozart's The Magic Flute.
