HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK - POETRY CATEGORY - FNLIJ 2011 With a body of work that includes prose, poetry, chronicles, short stories, and books for children and young adults, the author now returns to the world of children with a charming book of poetry for little ones. "There are people who scour the classifieds ads looking for a well-located apartment, a new car, a pedigree dog. But there are people who seek a flying carpet, the key to which they've already lost the lock, the address of their imaginary friend, the trail of a shooting star. This book is for them," explains the author. In the classifieds Grandpa reads in the newspaper, houses, cars, pipes, or horses are for sale. There are also brushes, bicycles, June festivals, or guarana. But when you have imagination, there's no limit: in three or four lines, you can find chilly mermaids, shooting stars, graffiti without a wall, and even a ripe pineapple. Classifieds and Not So Much brings together 80 short, "crazy" poems, illustrated with beautiful woodcuts by artist Rubem Grilo: "Old fountain seeks fresh water to make him happy"; "I rent a very haunted house for the season"; "Selling at auction what little remains of my heart"; "Sailboat seeks a hard-working wind willing to carry it beyond the equator." For those seeking hard-to-find things, just open this book and find whatever your imagination desires.
