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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 their original manuscripts and a number of

illustrators sample work.

In the sleepy state of Alagoas was the capital city

Maceio and after my appeal on the radio I waited

in my room for any response. There were no

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