Sítio Do Picapau Amarelo (fictional Farm)
The Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (literally translated and roughly known as the Yellow Woodpecker Farm or the Yellow Woodpecker Ranch) is the primary setting for the series of children's novels, ''Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (novel series), Sítio do Picapau Amarelo'', written by the Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato. The place is described as "a small farm with a pretty cottage, surrounded by trees" and close to several other subsettings: a stream, a virgin forest and a small village, both named the Tucanos. The Farm In the farm lives an old widow, Dona Benta ("Mrs. Benta"), and her two grandchildren, a girl, Lúcia, referred to only by her nickname "Narizinho" (roughly "Little Nose", because of her turned-up nose), and her boy cousin, Pedrinho ("Pete"); the servant and cook, a black woman named Nastácia ("Anastacia"), and two talking puppets, the rag doll Emilia (Sítio do Picapau Amarelo), Emília (animated by some of Doctor Snail's "talking pills" she somehow "ingested") and an Ar ...
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Sítio Do Picapau Amarelo (novel Series)
''Sítio do Picapau Amarelo'' (literally translated and roughly known as "''The Yellow Woodpecker Farm" or "The Yellow Woodpecker Ranch") is a series of 23 fantasy novels written by Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato between 1920 and 1940. The series is considered representative of Brazilian children's literature and as the Brazilian equivalent to children's classics such as C. S. Lewis, ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' and L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' List of Oz books, series. Lobato's single original adult fiction, a sci-fi novel entitled ''O Presidente Negro'' ("The Black President") set in the far future, would not achieve the same popularity of ''Sítio''. The concept was introduced in Monteiro Lobato's 1920 novel ''A Menina do Narizinho Arrebitado'', and was later republished as the first chapter of ''Reinações de Narizinho'', which is the first novel of the actual ''Sítio'' series. The main setting is Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (fictional farm), Sítio do Pi ...
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