Cover of Dona Baratinha with person wearing polka dot shirt and hair bow.
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Maria Eugênia, illustration for Dona Baratinha, by Ana Maria Machado (FTD). © 2004 Maria Eugênia.

Picture Books from Brazil: Bilingual Storytime

For Families
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Reading Library
Free with Museum admission

Join Laurieny Vilela from the Portuguese Program at UMass Amherst and Brazilian literature teacher and storyteller Fernanda Rivitti as they perform their English translation of the Brazilian picture book Dona baratinha (Miss Coackrocita) by Ana Maria Machado, with illustrations by Maria Eugênia.

Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass
Who You'll Meet
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Brazil in Translation (UMass Amherst, Spanish and Portuguese Program)

Laurieny da Costa Vilela is a graduate students from the Portuguese Program at UMass Amherst. Fernanda Rivitti is a storyteller and Expressive Arts Therapy graduate student at Lesley University.

Translation in the Hispanic and Lusophone World
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Tal Goldfajn

Tal Goldfajn is a linguist, translator and translator scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. Together with her students at UMass Amherst she founded the Pipa Project initiative for the promotion of translated children’s literature and multilingual storytelling.
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Pipa Project

The Pipa Project is an initiative that promotes picture books in translation and is part of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies at UMass.
Pipa Project