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Grande do Norte; Bahia; Cearra, Piaui; Maranhao;

Pernambuco; Alagoas: each of these states, primitive in

their Administration and their location. The union official

gave me the contact for each of these states. It was then

arranged for me to visit these states; not forgetting the size

of Brazil and the distance between São Paulo and these

states was well over 3000 miles. To give you some

perspective this is the distance between London and

Moscow.

So, we contacted each of the representatives; we booked

hotels in the principal cities; we contacted the radio in

each area; I booked rooms in the hotels for hospitality

meetings and off I went on my own with limited

Portuguese to collect as many authors and illustrators as I

possibly could. My target was only for infantile literature

authors and at each venue I spoke to about 25 authors and

illustrators. Over the radio I asked for any suitable material

that an author or illustrator had and to bring it to the hotel

and I set up several meeting times over the period I was in

each city. At every opportunity I asked if any of the authors

had ever written a children’s book to cover the life of Pelé.

Not one of them had any evidence that they had written

such a book, several said they had, and several said they

would: I returned to São Paulo with 83 new authors and

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