Teresa Dangerfield is a Portuguese author based in London, where she has lived for nearly four decades. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and a Master’s degree in Translation, shaped by her lifelong love of Portuguese and English literature, translation, and storytelling.
For many years, she taught Portuguese to children and young people in the UK, often bringing creative writing into her educational work. After leaving teaching, she devoted herself to professional translation and literary writing.
She is the author of short fiction for both adults and children and has been a regular contributor to Palavrar since 2021. In 2025, she also joined the editorial team of A Casa do João.
Her children’s books include A Ovelhinha Perdida/Baa Goes Missing (2023), A Magia de Luna na Cidade das Flores and O Herói da Floresta (2024), which won a children’s literature competition organised by the Portuguese publisher Trinta-Por-Uma-Linha.
In 2023, she was awarded Second Prize in the 28th Hernâni Cidade Literary Prize Hernâni Cidade Literary Prize for her short story Abraço de Papel.
She is currently developing new children’s books in both Portuguese and English and shares her literary journey on www.teresadangerfield.pt
Nico, a curious boy with a vivid imagination, wakes up one night to a mysterious crash and finds himself face to face with some of the characters from the book he had just started reading: Thunder, a gentle giant; Topo, an elf; and Serafina, a female dragon. They tell him he must accompany them, for he has been called upon to save the Forest from destruction at the hands of evil spirits, who threaten to lay waste to everything.
Though hesitant and unsure, Nico decides to follow his new friends and embarks on an adventure full of dangers and spine-tingling challenges. Halfway through the journey, he begins to realise that, somehow, he is part of the story he had only just begun to read. Could it be true?
Is he the hero the forest so desperately needs?
Will he be able to overcome his fears and succeed?
This is a story about the importance of friendship, trust and true courage, that powerful force we can find within ourselves.
In Flower Town, Luna, a diplomatic little cat, forms unlikely friendships with Foxy, the fox; Biquinho, the goldfinch; Tomé, the mouse; Banzé, the squirrel; Cacheiro, the hedgehog, and many others.
What will happen when Foxy falls into a trap, Mr. Pancrácio has an accident whilst chasing the animals out of his garden, Luna disappears or causes chaos (and laughter) in a care home, a pigeon is attacked by a kestrel, a local cake shop and bakery has a cockroach infestation, Cacheiro gets caught in the net of a lady who hates animals, and finally, the town is celebrating its bicentenary (with a fantastic programme that includes a play performed by children) and something goes terribly wrong?
What is Luna’s magic after all?
Or is the magic actually in the town?
Little Amelia is visiting her grandmother in a village. After an afternoon of playing in the park, without anyone noticing – whilst she, her mum and her grandmother are running for cover from the rain – she loses a little stuffed sheep, her inseparable companion, Bá. Someone finds it, completely soaked, and makes every effort to find its owner. All this leads to a series of adventures. Amelia lives in a city and ends up returning without her little sheep.
Will there be a happy ending?
Will Amelia and Bá be reunited?
Nico, a curious boy with a vivid imagination, wakes up one night to a mysterious crash and finds himself face to face with some of the characters from the book he had just started reading: Thunder, a gentle giant; Topo, an elf; and Serafina, a female dragon. They tell him he must accompany them, for he has been called upon to save the Forest from destruction at the hands of evil spirits, who threaten to lay waste to everything.
Though hesitant and unsure, Nico decides to follow his new friends and embarks on an adventure full of dangers and spine-tingling challenges. Halfway through the journey, he begins to realise that, somehow, he is part of the story he had only just begun to read. Could it be true?
Is he the hero the forest so desperately needs?
Will he be able to overcome his fears and succeed?
This is a story about the importance of friendship, trust and true courage, that powerful force we can find within ourselves.
In Flower Town, Luna, a diplomatic little cat, forms unlikely friendships with Foxy, the fox; Biquinho, the goldfinch; Tomé, the mouse; Banzé, the squirrel; Cacheiro, the hedgehog, and many others.
What will happen when Foxy falls into a trap, Mr. Pancrácio has an accident whilst chasing the animals out of his garden, Luna disappears or causes chaos (and laughter) in a care home, a pigeon is attacked by a kestrel, a local cake shop and bakery has a cockroach infestation, Cacheiro gets caught in the net of a lady who hates animals, and finally, the town is celebrating its bicentenary (with a fantastic programme that includes a play performed by children) and something goes terribly wrong?
What is Luna’s magic after all?
Or is the magic actually in the town?
Little Amelia is visiting her grandmother in a village. After an afternoon of playing in the park, without anyone noticing – whilst she, her mum and her grandmother are running for cover from the rain – she loses a little stuffed sheep, her inseparable companion, Bá. Someone finds it, completely soaked, and makes every effort to find its owner. All this leads to a series of adventures. Amelia lives in a city and ends up returning without her little sheep.
Will there be a happy ending?
Will Amelia and Bá be reunited?