O Mundo da Criança

The article proposes to analyze the print The World of the Child, a collection of children's literature of North American origin, which was translated, adapted and published in Brazil in the 1950s. It is identified the practice of reading with significant importance for the cultural, intellectual and moral development of societies in their different periods and contexts, because it is from it that subjects transmit and acquire concepts and behaviors. Therefore, the analysis is based on the studies of Norbert Elias, referring to the concepts of civility and moral behavior, and Roger Chartier when dealing with print as a cultural object. Thus, the objective is to verify the categories that the printed matter, object and source of research, approached for the formation of good habits to the infant of the 1950s and the relation with the development of a behavior considered civilized.