WORDS, IMAGES AND PARATEXTS FROM THE CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATED IN THE RETELLING AND RENEWAL OF A CLASSIC TALE

Abstract

Classic children's tales that have long enchanted children from different times and places are now revisited by creative authors and illustrators. By elaborating new versions or taking the original as inspiration to produce other stories, these creators contribute to renewing traditional narratives, enabling their permanence between different generations, for which the illustrated children's book has proven to be an important path. A modality characterized by the interdependence of verbal and visual languages in the context of a material support in which multiple elements express, this book exemplifies the productive interrelation of various semiosis in the configuration of an object through which, in innovative, fun and surprising artistic proposals, traditional stories and the children's literary universe itself are renewed. This article takes as its object of analysis the illustrated children's book É porco?, by the creators Jean Claude Alphen and Alexandre de Castro Gomes, published in 2021, seeking to deal with the ways in which the interdependence between verbal and visual occurs and its relationship with the paratextual elements and the material characteristics of the support, in order to effectively narrate a story that takes up the traditional tale Os três porquinhos e o lobo mau,  renewing it and helping it to continue to enchant and train readers in other times and spaces.