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Illustrations by Djamila Martins
Pingo Doce Children's Literature Competition
Creation of 5 images and cover for the winning Book:
“The book that didn’t know what it wanted to be”

This is the story of a small book that has a big problem: it still doesn't know what it wants to be. Sometimes it wants to be a book about astronauts, other times it wants to be a book about pirates.
There are days when it feels like being in a superhero book and others when it would rather be a fairy tale.
The older ones tell him that he has to make up his mind, that no one will want to read a book that doesn't know what it wants to be. Will it be true? And will he be able to decide?
In this story about the little indecisive, the author takes us on an adventure about children's freedom and the power of imagination and creativity.





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