Written by Bandeira and with illustrations by Avelino Guedes, this book mixes well-known fairy tales with the story of Feiurinha, a character created by the writer.
[2] O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha received critical acclaim upon release, which resulted in it winning the Jabuti Award for children's literature in 1986.
[3] Literary critic Lucila Garcez considered this to be a very original piece of fiction, in which a narrator/character, in the first person, reports unusual events, creating a plot full of humor and interspersed with allusions to traditional stories.
That is, it has a metaliterary structure that unveils the creative process in a playful and fanciful way, in order to reveal a reflection on the perenniality of fairy tales and the oral tradition of storytellers.
According to her, Feiurinha is a heroine who is a friend of Snow White, Cinderella and many others, but not registered in research by Perrault, the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen.