Refloresta
Gilberto Gil’s song becomes a visual narrative by Daniel Kondo, moving through biodiversity, destruction, memory and regeneration.
Refloresta was selected for The White Ravens 2026, the International Youth Library’s annual recommendation of outstanding children’s and young adult books from around the world.
“powerful pictures done in intensive, luminous and at times alarming colours.”
Head of Language Sections · Ibero-American Section
International Youth Library · Munich
A forest rebuilt through image, rhythm and time.
Gilberto Gil wrote Refloresta in 2021 following a request from photographer Sebastião Salgado. The song calls for the active regeneration of forests and damaged landscapes.
Daniel Kondo transforms its musical structure into a sequence of landscapes, animals, human presence, fire and regeneration. Rhythm moves from the song into the page through scale, colour, silence and the physical turn of each spread.
Text, illustration and editorial design are conceived as parts of the same visual narrative.
Browse Refloresta.
Explore the book and its visual sequence directly below.
Open fullscreen ↗The forest becomes the structure of the book.
Biodiversity
River dolphins, toucans, giant otters, anteaters, tapirs, jaguars and insects move through the sequence as inhabitants of a living, interconnected landscape.
Rhythm
Verses, pauses and images receive different durations. Musical rhythm is reorganised through page turns, scale and visual repetition.
Regeneration
Destruction and continuity occupy the same visual sequence. The book follows the possibility of rebuilding a landscape over time.
From São Paulo to Munich and New York.
Refloresta is already crossing borders.
Originally published in Brazil by Elo Editora, Refloresta was published in Portugal in 2026 by Orfeu Negro.
Elo Editora
- Publication
- 2025
- Pages
- 48
- Format
- 30 × 21 cm
- Binding
- Paperback
- Printing
- Offset · Pantone colours
- ISBN
- 978-65-6142-246-8
- Reading age
- 8–11
- Foreword
- Eliane Brum
Orfeu Negro
- Publication
- 2026
- Pages
- 48
- Format
- 30.5 × 21.5 cm
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Collection
- Orfeu Mini
- ISBN / EAN
- 9789899225701
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