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A Biblioteca do Lucas e o Prémio Nacional de Ilustração (2009)

Começo aqui uma série de posts com a etiqueta Biblioteca, pois alguns dos livrinhos afixados e desejados sempre vêm cá parar ;)
E aproveito o ensejo para dar os Parabéns a Madalena Matoso, vencedora do Prémio Nacional de Ilustração com A Charada da Bicharada, livrinho que está todo pimpão na Biblioteca do Lucas, sei lá.
A ilustradora teve ainda outra distinção com o livro Trava-Línguas, o qual também já cá canta :)
Somos uns vaidosos...

Os primeiros dias do Bebé

E as emoções dos animais

UP

Bisonte Bebé

Telegraph Animals of the Week Gallery
Que eu nunca tinha visto, e que, como todas as coisas «pequeninas», é uma ternura :)

Behold the Fearsome Predator

On the vast arid plains of the Serengeti, the silent and deadly jaguar awaits his prey.

Victim in sight, he creeps slowly forward, his mighty paw raised for the killing stroke… and then…

WHUMP! "Oh, hi boss! I was just, ah… walking around the yard, minding my own business… you know, thinking about stuff… and definitely not stalking you, honest, I would never do that."

Rare jaguar cub born last year at Huachipa Zoo in Lima, Peru. Details here.

Cute Overload

Daniel

Feliz Páscoa

Vida Animal da semana no Telegraph

iPlayPhone

E porque nesta casa há um iPhone, sei lá ;)

Diz-nos o criador da aplicaçãozinha, Ryan Neudorf:

All the buttons play goofy sounds. The onShake sound totally baffles my son, he’s like “woah, i shake it and is makes sounds…weird.”

Sea Life no Porto ;)

SEA LIFE Porto will introduce you to many strange, beatuiful and fascinating creatures of the deep. Prepare for astonishing close views of everything from humble starfish to mighty sharks, all in displays which carefully recreate their natural habitats.

Discover the truth about the much-misunderstood shark; the plight of the endangered sea turtle; the remarkable lives of seahorses and countless more surprising facts about these and other incredible creatures.

Sea Life Europe website

Livros e Crianças e livros para crianças organizados

aqui nos linques à esquerda, a saber:

I Festa do Livro Infantil

Em 1967 foi instituído o Dia Internacional do Livro Infantil com o objectivo de contribuir para fomentar do gosto pela leitura entre os mais novos. Escolheu-se o dia 2 de Abril para o assinalar por ser o dia em que nasceu Hans Christian Andersen, escritor dinamarquês universalmente conhecido pelas suas histórias infantis.

O Município de Lisboa, decidiu, este ano, assinalar esta data com a I Festa do Livro Infantil de Lisboa que decorrerá na Praça da Figueira de 27 de Março a 5 de Abril.

Diariamente, entre as 10h00 e as 20h00, os visitantes encontrarão outros motivos de interesse, nomeadamente no programa de animação. Sessões de apresentação/lançamento de livros com a presença de autores portugueses, leitura de obras para crianças na Hora do Conto, Ateliers, área de leitura exterior e a presença da Biblioteca Itinerante da CML, aos sábados e Domingos das 14 às 18h, são alguns dos eventos que terão lugar no âmbito da Festa.

Programa ;)

Oh, senhoresssss ;))

Comidaa

Especial Nutrição na revista de domingo do DN



Alguns artigos disponíveis online,
entre os quais este, muito interessante,
sobre os Açúcares

Com dois dias de idade

Telegraph

E alarmes para lembrar da existência de bebés nos mil aparelhómetros que se adora ter hoje em dia, não?

À falta de alarme na cabeça, no coração, no instinto, nem sei o que digo, é escabroso...

Um menino de nove meses morreu fechado no carro do pai, onde ficou durante três horas sob o sol forte da manhã. O pai terá optado por deixar o filho a dormitar em vez de o levar logo à creche, que fica mesmo ao lado, mas acabou por esquecer-se dele no automóvel. Pode vir a ser acusado de homicídio por negligência.

Mais no DN online

How to Write Books for Children

Todos os Rapazes São Gatos

Texto dramático de forte pendor metafórico, Todos os Rapazes São Gatos é também um hino à liberdade e à irreverência da juventude, assim como à espontaneidade dos afectos, ao mesmo tempo que dá conta das dúvidas da personagem relativas ao seu crescimento e à sua auto-imagem. O simbolismo das referências felinas que dominam o protagonista e a forma como ele se relaciona com o mundo e com os outros excedem a sua simples caracterização e dão o mote para o desenvolvimento da acção. As ilustrações de Alain Corbel recuperam de forma original a metáfora que estrutura o texto, redimensionando-o. | Ana Margarida Ramos

Título Todos os rapazes são gatos | Autor(es) Álvaro Magalhães, Alain Corbel (ilustrador) | Tipo de documento Livro | Editora Edições Asa | Local Porto | Data de edição 2004 | Área Temática Infância, Afectos, Casa, Família, Animais, Linguagem, Sonho | ISBN 972-41-3582-9 |

Casa da Leitura

Wishlist: A Infância é um Território Desconhecido

Who is Luke?

Finding out about Luke is a bit like tracing your family tree. Some of it is easy, because there is documentary proof, some of it is based on the fairly reliable evidence of what your parents and grandparents told you, and some of it has to be inferred, guessed and imagined. Luke was writing for someone who already knew him, Theophilus, and so he didn't bother to introduce himself. Books, in those days, were handwritten, not mass-produced, and though Theophilus probably had a few copies made for friends, all of them would have known either Luke or Theophilus, so no author's biography was necessary. In fact, he doesn't actually tell us his name at all. We know it because it always circulated as the work of one called Luke. The story Luke is telling is not about himself, though he was there to see parts of it, so uncovering Luke is a matter of piecing together scraps of evidence.

Although the name was quite a common one, ancient tradition has usually identified our Luke with the Luke whom the apostle Paul mentions twice. Paul is an important character in The Acts of the Apostles, and our writer does seem to have travelled with Paul on some of his missionary journeys. In fact we seem to have parts of Luke's travel diary reproduced in, for example, Acts 21, where the writer suddenly starts to talk about what "we" did, rather than using the third person narrative of the rest of the book.

So it would not be surprising if Paul's writings also mention Luke. In two of the letters of Paul that are preserved in the New Testament, Paul does indeed talk about Luke. In one letter, written to a man called Philemon, Paul adds greetings at the end of the letter from some of the other people who are with him. He says, in effect "and lots of love from Luke, too". He calls Luke his "fellow-worker", and though that is not exactly a recognised job-description, it does suggest someone whom Paul trusts and who is known, at least by reputation, to Philemon and other Christians.

The second mention is in a letter Paul wrote to the Colossian Christians. Again, Paul adds Luke's greetings at the end of the letter, and he calls Luke "the beloved physician". We know that Paul suffered from something that he called his "thorn in the flesh", and although there has been endless speculation about what exactly this might have been, it is possible that it was an ailment that made it helpful for him to have a doctor with him on some of his travels.

This is certainly how the Christians in the time immediately after the period in which the New Testament was being written knew Luke. The Muratorian Canon, which was an early list of important Christian writings, from around the end of the 2nd century, calls the author of Luke's Gospel and Acts "Luke the physician and companion of Paul". Irenaeus, who was bishop of Lyons at around the same time, also takes that for granted. So, clearly, wherever the manuscripts circulated, that explanation of their provenance circulated with them. That may sound unusual and unreliable to modern ears, but it is constitutes a high degree of certainty for a manuscript that comes from a culture where oral tradition and eye-witness accounts were the main form of historical record.

So much for the external evidence about Luke. His own writings tell us a little bit more. He writes really lovely, educated, fluent Greek. When he quotes the Jewish scriptures, which he does a lot, he is clearly using the Greek translation which we know as the Septuagint. He is well-read, and knows the conventions about how to write "proper" history, in a way that would be acceptable to his well-connected patron, Theophilus.

At the beginning of his gospel, he tells us that he has investigated everything carefully and written an "orderly account". He does not claim to have met Jesus, but he does claim to have used eye-witness statements about the events he is relating. Although he and Theophilus are both already believers, they are not credulous idiots. They want to know the evidence. Being a Christian at this period in history is not going to do anything for their social standing and is, at the very least, going to lose them friends among the educated, ruling Roman elite, so they need to go into this with their eyes open.

Luke's own personality only comes through very obliquely. He seems to have cared deeply for the poor and the marginalised – it is Luke who tells us that the first witnesses of the birth of Jesus are rough shepherds. All the gospels agree that women were unusually active and accepted in early Christianity, but it is Luke who preserves some of the best stories about them – for example, the story about Jesus' mother, Mary and Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist (Luke 1). Luke, more than any of the other gospel writers, notices that Jesus' mission was always potentially inclusive. In Acts, he chronicles how the Christian community grew so that it was no longer racially, culturally or socially exclusive, and you can't help wondering if that is one of the things that attracted him to it in the first place. This is a movement that starts with the small people.

All in all, I think Luke would have been a nice man to have dinner with. He would listen, without letting his eyes wander to find someone more important; he would talk wisely and well; he would make you feel that, however unimportant and mundane your life might appear, it could actually be part of some huge, exciting movement for change. That's what the story of Acts suggests.

From the How to believe series, The Guardian