In search of the (im)possible relationship: between literary education and arts education

ABSTRACT This study deals with the relationship between children's literature and artistic expressions; between literary education and arts education. The main objectives of the study were: knowing authors, illustrators and children’s literature texts; promoting the literary reader training; promoting, in children, the relation between literature and artistic expressions; promoting the cultural and artistic training of children. For this study we called the action-research methodology and the study was developed with children who attended the 2nd year of primary school. The results of this study allowed us to conclude that a work that relates, in school, children's literature and artistic expressions gives children pleasure in reading; stimulates imagination and creativity; develops the construction of a critical reader; makes possible the establishment of relations between the literary text, the illustrations and the artistic expressions.