...if we take the masterpieces of Perrault, Tales of Mother Goose (1697), and the Brothers Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812), as landmarks of the beginning of European children's literature, there is a delay of close to a century and a half before the appearance of the first Brazilian books for children. ...the first Brazilian children's books were not Brazilian: they were either of Portuguese origin, or translations and adaptations from European novels and tales. Even with the progress and achievements that the twentieth century gradually brought to these groups in different spheres of society, it is only in the twenty-first century that, driven by government policies geared at school purchases of literary works aimed at these populations and with representation of their culture and specific problems, the editorial market opened up space for the appearance of a flourishing literature in this field. ...in the first decades of the twentieth century, in a period that is much closer to the beginning of our production of books for children, censorship reached, for example, the work of Monteiro Lobato (1882–1948), considered by many the greatest author of Brazilian children's literature to this day.