This study aims to test a few steps to allow through the work of Monteiro Lobato, understand the contribution of the storyteller in the process of formation of the reader. Even if briefly, some points of the history of Monteiro Lobato are presented to get to the storyteller and check more closely, in part of his work, especially the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, how this acts and interfere with the formation of the reader. In this way, it’s necessary to address the cultural tradition of writing and orality also, when you register the formation of the storyteller. After carefully mapping the key counters that passed in the Lobato’s universe, selecting and combining some "ingredients" that we consider essential to the practice accountant, to then investigate possible "fruit" of this practice. Are shown the contributions of authors such as Walter Ong, Paul Zumthor, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, among others. The comparative method-analytical predominates taken the theoretical assumptions on the subject to cross them with selected passages of Monteiro Lobato.