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Abstract

What stories do children tell? Who listens to your stories? What topics do children prefer? How do small narrators perform their stories? These were some of the questions that drove the organization of thematic dossier of number 20 of Revista Boitatá, entitled “Children's Oral Narratives”. The dossier starts from the observation that although there is a vast collection of research and academic productions about adult narrators and stories told to children, little has been done about children's narrative production. This invisibility of the children's narratives - or “muteness”, to keep the metaphorical affinity with the field of orality - starts in the very definition of the concept of childhood, because when looking for the etymology of the word it is verified that infans, in Latin, is “ he who does not speak ”.