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** While is not exactly intense for kids, the books had an explicitly what we would call today left-wing view, having several moments anti-slavery, violence, war, anti-Nazis, anti-dictatorship and how technology would improve the lives of humankind (in one work even telling how the work automatization could free the humans from the need of working to survive and in "O Poço do Visconde", its main character states that the only way to improve a country is by overcoming poverty [making everyone to receive all the riches]).

** The books received accusations of stereotyping black people: Aunt Anastasia embodying the {{Mammy}} stereotype and Uncle Barnabé veering close to MagicalNegro territory. Saci, the most prominent supernatural black character in the series being TheTrickster doesn't help either. And to make matters worse, Lobato even makes racist comments when comparing Anastasia with a monkey and defended eugeny in others of his books. It is enough to make many people try to ban their books from Brazilian schools. The research by the Univesity of São Paulo "[[http://oblob.fflch.usp.br/ Observatório Lobato]]" discovered that the comments "comparing" Nastácia to a "black-coal monkey" didn't have anything to do with the color: the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriqui Muriqui]]" monkey is a red haired animal and the author is describing the way she climbs the pole in comparison to the animal, not her looks. On the eugenics topic: as the Observatório explains, Lobato never defended the racial-cleaning eugenics, but only what is today called "public health policies" (vaccination and so on). In "The Black President" ([[https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/O_Choque_das_Ra%C3%A7as Portuguese Wikisource]]), he criticizes the racial-cleaning ideas by satirizing the eugenicists as a bunch of petty characters, like the research by the Observatório shows, while showing its main black character as a respectful leader. But since it is a distopy, things end badly...

** Certain tales from "Diverse Stories" will come across as very racist to modern audiences. While others, like "A Violeta Orgulhosa", have a clear anti-racist allegory.

** Emilia is universally associated with her colorful portrayal and the orange, red and yellow palette introduced in the series, but in the books she is said to look rather ragged and unelaborate, with older illustrations making her dark-haired and more plain-looking. In "País da Gramática", it is stated that Emília looks like how she is portrayed in each given book/adaptation, basically retconning her description as looking something like a witch.

* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned in the Character page, the Councillor/Talking Donkey doesn't belong to any existing fable, despite being, InUniverse, a former resident from the Land of Fables. Decades later, the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' franchise would bring a talking donkey living among several fables.

** The books received accusations of stereotyping black people: Aunt Anastasia embodying the {{Mammy}} stereotype and Uncle Barnabé veering close to MagicalNegro territory. Saci, the most prominent supernatural black character in the series being TheTrickster doesn't help either. And to make matters worse, Lobato even makes racist comments when comparing Anastasia with a monkey and defended eugeny in others of his books. It is enough to make many people try to ban their books from Brazilian schools. The research by the Univesity of São Paulo "[[http://oblob.fflch.usp.br/ Observatório Lobato]]" discovered that the comments "comparing" Nastácia to a "black-coal monkey" didn't have anything to do with the color: the "Muriqui" monkey is a red haired animal and the author is describing the way she climbs the pole in comparison to the animal, not her looks. On the eugenics topic: as the Observatório explains, Lobato never defended the racial-cleaning eugenics, but only what is today called "public health policies" (vaccination and so on). In "The Black President", he criticizes the racial-cleaning ideas by satirizing the eugenicists as a bunch of petty characters, like the research by the Observatório shows, while showing its main black character as a respectful leader. But since it is a distopy, things end badly...

** Certain tales from "Diverse Stories" will come across as very racist to modern audiences. While others, like "A Violeta Orgulhosa", have a cleary an anti-racist allegory.