This article approaches, from a critical-hermeneutical view, the role played by the teaching
manual in the childhood scholarity and its influence
on the representations and the imaginaries of
children in Colombia between 1974 and 2011.
In order to do so, the text for reading initiation
Nacho lee was chosen because it is a manual that
still exists in the mind and in the imaginaries of
Colombians and also is a text that is easy to get
in the market, a condition not shared by other
manuals such as La cartilla de Charry, Pinocho
libro de inicial de lectura, Trampolín, Diabluras,
Victoria, and the best seller of all times: La alegría
de leer (The Joy f Reading) which was, according
to Melo (1999) surpassed in Colombia only by the
literary works of Gabriel García Márquez, given
the fact it sold, probably, more than a million units
(Melo, 1999).
