This dissertation stems from an investigation of the children who inhabit four short stories in Guimarães Rosa s Primeiras estórias: A menina de lá, Partida do Audaz Navegante, As margens da alegria and Pirlimpsiquice, assuming childhood as a philosophical epistemic category which can and should partake in pedagogical and educational narratives. In order to do so, each chapter endeavors to capture theoretical subsidies in Rosa s childhoods which could distend the planned and businesslike tone often found in the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), Brazil s Common Core Curriculum, a normative document which generates all the national curricula. This research is concerned particularly with the artistic-literary field in the final stages of middle school and aims to create alternative BNCC reading cartographies, discussing the relationships formed by school with time, literature, and diversity. The dissertation is permeated with reflections based on Deleuze-Guattarian and Benjaminian ideas, in addition to conversing with the so-called post-critical approaches to curriculum, always committed with defending the institution of school. Finally, an intervention by the aforementioned children on the body of the BNCC intrudes the investigation, proposing erasures and overwriting which can both perform and make the imagined cartographies present in the document.