THE INTELLECTUALS GABRIELA MISTRAL AND CECÍLIA MEIRELES IN CHILDERN’ LIBRARIES: TRAITS OF EDUCATIONAL MODERNITY IN MEXICO AND BRAZIL

ABSTRACT The following paper debates projects of reader formation developed by the intellectuals Gabriela Mistral and Cecília Meireles during the educational reforms in México and Brazil, respectively. We analyzed both trajectories in the historical time of educational modernity, through the review of the actions that substantiated the implementation of libraries, in particular, the ones aimed at children’s public reading. Acted on the formulation of a conception of childhood literature, defending the idea that writing to children demanded detailed studies about their literary liking, associate to sensibility, construing as legacy to the generation who succeeded the possibility to carry on what they proposed at that time: to form a child reader.