Representations of gender and children's literature: paradidatics books under review

The adoption of paradidatics books for early childhood education is a practice identified in most brazilian schools, it is useful as an educational action strategy, seeking complementarities of themes from didatics. In this context, analyzed four paradidatics books: Musicians of Bremen (Ruth Rocha); A golden braid (Tatiana Belinky); The scrawled queen (Sylvia Orthof); and Peacock opens and closes (Ana Maria Machado). We decided, theoretically and methodologically by the analysis of critical discourse, from Norman Fairclough (2001), Eliseo Veron (2004) and Laerte Magalhaes (2003), and aimed to identify the representations and gender discourses built this literature. Thus, we observe the existence of esteriotipais of duality between the sexes, patriarchal model, romanticism and body aestheticization.