Anne de Green Gables

A horse tells his own life in the first person as he passes from owner to owner through Victorian England. The novel was written to make people treat animals better, and it still works that way.

Anna Sewell

A tornado carries Dorothy to a land where the scarecrow, the tin woodman and the lion all talk. The Portuguese translation includes the author's introduction, where he explains why he wanted to write a fairy tale without the darker morals.

L. Frank Baum

A condensed Portuguese version of the pirate novel, with the map, the Admiral Benbow inn and Long John Silver. Being a short adaptation, it works as a first approach before taking on the full text.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and the town on the banks of the Mississippi, in Portuguese translation. Between the whitewashed fence, the graveyard at night and the cave, the novel moves in episodes that read almost like separate stories.

Mark Twain

Sara Crewe goes from privileged pupil to servant at a London boarding school when her father dies ruined. A Portuguese translation from the same author as The Secret Garden, in the same register.

Frances Hodgson Burnett