The essay aimed getting to know the narratives, practices and interactions of children age between eight and twelve years old who attend Kinderland (AKA Colonist), as well as adults who took part in its constitution both as colonists and as team members. Kinderland exists for 66 years and is located in the district of Sacra Família do Tinguá, municipality of Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin - in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. What do children talk (among each other and to adults) about the experience of being a child in Kinderland? What do they tell and narrate? How/what are their practices and interactions? How do they relate with the space of Kinderland? What are children photos focus and what they reveal about this place? These are examples of field research s guiding questions. The study sought to dialogue mainly with the children and had as methodological strategies: field research observation at Kinderland, in January 2017 and 2018; individual and collective interviews, as well as three workshops with the children: (i) Memories Little Box; (ii) Enlarge Look - photography workshop - and, (iii) I praise; I criticize; I propose - workshop inspired by the technique of the mural journal of Célestin Freinet. The essay is organized in four chapters. First chapter deals with the creation of Kinderland and the historical context in which it was founded. It presents the facilities spaces, structure, and routine. Second chapter approaches the subject of research in human sciences: Ethics, respect, affection and responsibility as central pillars in this study. This chapter introduces the authors who were present in the course of the research. They are Benjamin with the concept of experience, recollection and narrative; Buber contributing to the concepts of community, education and dialogue and; Corsaro with the sociology of childhood and the social role of the child, understood as a social actor, active in their relationships. In the following chapter: the entry into the field; observations on and reflections about interactions in Kinderland, as well as the children productions in the workshops: what do they show? Fourth chapter reveals narratives through individual and collective interviews. What do children tell about childhood in Kinderland? What do they feel in this place? What Kinderland experiences do they take back with them to their homes? What do they like the most and what would they change? How do they relate to adults, other children and their families, during the time they are at Kinderland? This chapter also presents the return to the field, in January 2018, and the sharing with the children of the reports collected in previous year, considering them as active participants in the research process. From these methodological strategies and the links to the authors, the research sought to value children narratives, productions and sight and to build with them a study revealing what it is like to be a child in Kinderland.