The scribbles of the world

A BOY'S VIEW OF ADULTS' SCRIBBLINGS Rodrigo was scolded by his mother for doodling on the wall. "It's not a polite boy's thing," she said. But Rodrigo doesn't understand anything, after all, his mother is always doodling. Adults are always doodling on their faces, to make themselves look prettier. On paper, to turn it into money. Airplanes scribble in the sky. So what's so wrong with doodling on the wall? • Ricardo Benevides has already received the Newcomer Author Award from the National Foundation for Children's and Young Adult Books, for his first children's book, *Fabiola Went to the Wind*. • He wrote, with Leo Cunha, *Once Upon a Time* a Kingdom of Lies* and *Once Upon a Time* a Sleepy Kingdom*.