Brazilian author and illustrator: Ziraldo is dead. He died on Saturday at the age of 91 in his apartment in Rio de Janeiro.
One of his most famous creations is the character Menino Maluquinho. The story of the adventurous boy was shown on television in Germany under the title “The Little Nerve” "Brazil has lost one of its greatest representatives of culture, the press, children's literature and imagination," wrote President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.