Monteiro Lobato is one of Brazil's most popular and beloved writers. He is best known for his series of imaginative children's books about Yellow Woodpecker Farm, or, as they say in Brazil, S tio do Picapau Amarelo. The Reform of Nature is a novella that can be appreciated by children and grownups. Their reasons would be different, but both are astonished by the crazy creativity of the tale. Lobato was very concerned about...