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Programa Nacional do Livro Didático; Literature for child and Youth; Reading at school; Childhood and Adolescence.
Discussions about the formation of readers in Brazil have been part of academic circles in the areas of language and education for decades, and seem to be far from over. Ensuring access to quality reading, forming a taste for reading, reading mediation processes, training teachers and other mediators are some of the issues raised by both Brazilian research groups and public education bodies. With this research, we seek to collaborate for the possible answers to some of these problems. Thus, we analyzed the largest and most important reading incentive program in Brazil today, Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD), in its most recent announcement, from the year 2020, which made literary works available for the second segment of elementary education (6th to 9th year) for all public schools in the country. In this sense, we analyzed the consolidation of this program in Brazil, from a historical perspective, relating to the previous programs, as well as the aesthetic quality of three literary works selected by the public notice in question: O menino que caiu no buraco (2004), by Ivan Jaf, A guardiã dos segredos de família (2011), by Stela Maris Rezende, and Lola e Ervilha (2004), by Annette Mierswa. The study of these works was carried out based on the notion of structural reduction proposed by Antonio Candido (2011), in addition, it sought to understand how the child and youth character is understood in these narratives from his historical situation, according to Ariès (1981) and Zilberman (2005).