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      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Endemic

        Ten endemic plants of Reunion to know and protect

        by Mary-des-ailes

        This herbarium is devoted to ten endemic trees of Reunion, examples of precious species that are now only found in a few islands, witnesses of a now threatened balance.

      • Trusted Partner
        Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's/YA)
        October 2019

        Noticias al margen

        by María José Ferrada, Andrés López Martínez

        Disappearances, ecological disasters and humanitarian crisis are most of the time less important topics in the news —or in our everyday life— compared to movie premieres or the result of football matches. The relevance of this matters, require our urgent reflection.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        The Nest of Magpies

        by Hai Fei

        This is a very realistic original picture book. The author turns his attention to the northwest of China, where strong winds and sands dominate the sky, and tells a touching story that depicts the scene that "when the sand advances, humans retreat; when humans advance, the sand retreats." The hero of the book is a boy called Shawa, who is good friends with the magpies on a white poplar. He has been curious about the magpies' nest and wanted to know what it looks like inside, but he has never had a chance. Finally, his curiosity is satisfied after the white poplar is destroyed by a sandstorm and then falls. Surprisingly, there is water, the source of life, inside the nest where magpies fly away and their eggs are broken. Nature gives Shawa a life lesson with its double face of tenderness and grimness.   The book, with its concise and powerful narrative and liberal painting style, integrates paintings with texts, in which the scenery of the northwest, the mighty power of nature, and the simplicity and warmth of personal relationships have all been vividly expressed. It makes readers consider the relationship between humanity and nature from a small but large perspective: humans are both small and great in a harsh natural environment. Only by respecting nature and learning to live in harmony with nature can we have a peaceful and happy life. This book is a beautiful hymn to nature and humanity.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        Epic of Mountain and Forests

        An Invitation Letter from Nature

        by Xue Tao

        An Invitation Letter from Nature series is Xue Tao's first set of nature-themed picture books. Since childhood, Xue Tao has enjoyed getting along with the plants and animals in nature and felt the rise and fall of all beings with a sensitive heart. This set of picture books for nature and ecology education just pays tribute to nature, as well as to a vibrant childhood.   An Invitation Letter from Nature series focuses on the theme of nature in the form of transitions through the four seasons. It currently has five books: Epic of Mountain Forests, Day and Night of the Little Wooden House, One Year of Me and Tree, Missing Bugs and Grass, Birds and Little Beasts as Companions. Each book has its own theme, just like five different landscape paintings, presenting different life experiences.   In Epic of Mountain and Forests, a little boy runs, observes, and thinks in the forest together with a small beast. The whole process becomes a journey to free the body and mind and to find the meaning of life.

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        Children's & YA

        Missing Bugs and Grass

        An Invitation Letter from Nature

        by Xue Tao

        An Invitation Letter from Nature series is Xue Tao's first set of nature-themed picture books. Since childhood, Xue Tao has enjoyed getting along with the plants and animals in nature and felt the rise and fall of all beings with a sensitive heart. This set of picture books for nature and ecology education just pays tribute to nature, as well as to a vibrant childhood.   An Invitation Letter from Nature series focuses on the theme of nature in the form of transitions through the four seasons. It currently has five books: Epic of Mountain Forests, Day and Night of the Little Wooden House, One Year of Me and Tree, Missing Bugs and Grass, Birds and Little Beasts as Companions. Each book has its own theme, just like five different landscape paintings, presenting different life experiences.   Missing Bugs and Grass depicts the changes of bugs and grass in four seasons, which is in fact a metaphor for the journey of human life.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        One Year of Me and Tree

        An Invitation Letter from Nature

        by Xue Tao

        An Invitation Letter from Nature series is Xue Tao's first set of nature-themed picture books. Since childhood, Xue Tao has enjoyed getting along with the plants and animals in nature and felt the rise and fall of all beings with a sensitive heart. This set of picture books for nature and ecology education just pays tribute to nature, as well as to a vibrant childhood.   An Invitation Letter from Nature series focuses on the theme of nature in the form of transitions through the four seasons. It currently has five books: Epic of Mountain Forests, Day and Night of the Little Wooden House, One Year of Me and Tree, Missing Bugs and Grass, Birds and Little Beasts as Companions. Each book has its own theme, just like five different landscape paintings, presenting different life experiences.   One Year of Me and Tree takes one year as the timeline and presents the growth of the little boy and the tree. The tree adapts to the four seasons' changes and becomes one with the earth and the sky. The boy is also growing up joyfully day by day throughout the year and integrates with nature.

      • Trusted Partner
        Children's & YA

        Day and Night of the Little Wooden House

        An Invitation Letter from Nature

        by Xue Tao

        An Invitation Letter from Nature series is Xue Tao's first set of nature-themed picture books. Since childhood, Xue Tao has enjoyed getting along with the plants and animals in nature and felt the rise and fall of all beings with a sensitive heart. This set of picture books for nature and ecology education just pays tribute to nature, as well as to a vibrant childhood.   An Invitation Letter from Nature series focuses on the theme of nature in the form of transitions through the four seasons. It currently has five books: Epic of Mountain Forests, Day and Night of the Little Wooden House, One Year of Me and Tree, Missing Bugs and Grass, Birds and Little Beasts as Companions. Each book has its own theme, just like five different landscape paintings, presenting different life experiences.   The book Day and Night of the Little Wooden House depicts the construction of a little wooden house, the changes around it from day to night and from spring to winter, and the days the little boy spends with various insects and beasts, all together creating a beautiful fairy tale.

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        Children's & YA

        Birds and Little Beasts as Companions

        An Invitation Letter from Nature

        by Xue Tao

        An Invitation Letter from Nature series is Xue Tao's first set of nature-themed picture books. Since childhood, Xue Tao has enjoyed getting along with the plants and animals in nature and felt the rise and fall of all beings with a sensitive heart. This set of picture books for nature and ecology education just pays tribute to nature, as well as to a vibrant childhood.   An Invitation Letter from Nature series focuses on the theme of nature in the form of transitions through the four seasons. It currently has five books: Epic of Mountain Forests, Day and Night of the Little Wooden House, One Year of Me and Tree, Missing Bugs and Grass, Birds and Little Beasts as Companions. Each book has its own theme, just like five different landscape paintings, presenting different life experiences.   In Birds and Little Beasts as Companions, the little boy always stays together with the native creatures and talk to them, which depicts a pastoral lifestyle.

      • Children's & YA

        The Planet, Mimi and Me

        My CAT-a-list to help the environment

        by Agnes de Bezenac

        What can I do to help the environmental CATastrophe? A LOT, it turns out. Join me and my cat, Mimi, as we come up with ideas of how to Cat-a-pult ourselves to being part of the solution. We might have some good ideas and you will probably have even better ideas. So let’s get started! Suggested for ages 5+. See more on our website https://www.icharacter.org/products-page/the-planet-mimi-and-me/

      • Children's & YA
        March 2020

        Die Waltänzerin

        by Birgit Baader

        Kaiana besitzt eine besondere Gabe: Sie gehört zur Gruppe der Waltänzer. Seit Urzeiten suchen die Wale Kontakt mit einzelnen Menschen, die direkt mit ihnen kommunizieren können. Kaiana ist einer dieser Menschen. Sie lebt mit ihrer alleinerziehenden Mutter Seloina und ihren Geschwistern Roko und Aisha zusammen in einer kleinen Küstenstadt. Zwischen ihr und Seloina kommt es immer wieder zu Spannungen. Seloina ist häufig überfordert mit Kindereziehung, Haushalt und Arbeit und kann ihre träumerische Tochter nicht wahrnehmen und verstehen. Zum Glück gibt es Risa, Kaianas Großmutter. Sie versteht ihre Enkelin nicht nur, sondern schafft es, auch ihrer Tochter zart, aber bestimmt einen Spiegel vorzuhalten. Risa weiß, dass Kaiana eine besondere Gabe besitzt. Doch bevor Kaiana ihre einzigartige Aufgabe erfüllen kann, muss sie zunächst vieles lernen und einige Initiationen überstehen. Gemeinsam mit Toroa, einer schwangeren Buckelwalin, die vor der Geburt ihres Kalbes fast an Komplikationen stirbt, und durch Risas Unterstützung findet Kaiana das Selbstvertrauen und die Stärke, zu sich zu stehen und auf ihre Fähigkeiten zu vertrauen. Auch wenn es ihr nicht immer leicht fällt, erkennt sie nach und nach, dass sie ihr Glück nur findet, wenn sie sich selbst treu bleibt. Die Waltänzerin ermutigt Heranwachsende, ihre Eigenheiten und Gefühle anzunehmen und sich nicht von ihrem Weg ablenken zu lassen. Wer seine Talente erkennt und sie gezielt einsetzt, unabhängig von äußerer Akzeptanz und Unterztützung, findet sein Lebensglück. Kinder werden körperlich immer früher reif und zum Erwachsenen. In ihrer emotionalen und spirituellen Entwicklung sind sie jedoch häufig auf sich alleine gestellt. Ihr Umfeld versteht sie entweder nicht oder ist zu sehr mit sich selbst und anderen Dingen beschäftigt, um einen verlässlichen Rahmen bieten zu können. Die Folge sind dramatisch ansteigende Zahlen von Jugendlichen mit mentalen Störungen, die seelisch und geistig aus der Balance geraten sind.

      • General fiction (Children's/YA)
        May 2021

        The Rose without a Name

        The Story of the Katrina Rose

        by Nancy Rust & Caroll Stubbs ||Melissa Vandiver illustrator

        When Hurricane Katrina swept everything from its path, Peggy Martin's famous rose garden was left under 20 ft of water and mud. Everyone thought nothing would recover. But after the water receded, a singe no-name old-fashioned rose stood alone. The rose finally earned a name and brought hope to all for miles around.

      • Sticker & stamp books

        The Children's Book of Green Habits

        by Kate Davies, Sophie Giles

        Packed with tips for children on learning "green" habits, from switching off lights to recycling. The principles shown will provide children with important life skills and an awareness that will guide them through childhood and throughout the rest of their lives. Includes wipe-clean reward chart and star stickers to encourage and reward learning.

      • Interactive & activity books & packs

        NAWEL, THE SON OF THE ANIMALS, PU KULLIÑ ÑI YALL

        by Sofía Guerrero Zepeda, Juan Francisco Bascuñán Muñoz, Loreto Salinas Retamal

        This bilingual Spanish-Mapuzugun story, based on the Mapuche tradition, tells the story of Nawel, a boy who was raised by the animals of the forest in southern Chile, learning their language and also that of the non-living elements of nature, such as wind, thunder and water. The puma gets sick from drinking water contaminated by waste from the city and Nawel is called in to solve the problem, by teaching its inhabitants to take care of the environment, which ultimately means a healthier life for themselves. The book also presents an attractive game with illustrations of different animals and a mini dictionary that teaches the names of the animals in Mapuzugun.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        July 2020

        What if tomorrow... the continuation!

        by Michel Piquemal

        Eleven short stories as striking as they are corrosive, showing the possible abuses of a world very close to ours - the world of tomorrow. What if tomorrow... humanity were to become stupid? What if tomorrow... we could spy on each other's private lives? What if tomorrow... money has an expiration date? What if tomorrow... our pets wear glasses? We grind our teeth, but always with humor. The whole thing brushes a future that looks like a misunderstanding of what is already a little bit of our worrying reality.

      • Children's & YA
        February 2020

        Black Friday

        by Christophe Léon

        Dresses and make-up. A new generation tablet. A new law on obsolescence. A small business not very legal. A lost Santa Claus in the heart of Africa. A well-fed child. "Black Friday" is six short stories of black humor to be consumed without moderation. But beware, this Black Friday will leave a bitter taste in your mouth: when hyperconsumption and perpetual promotions to the point of nausea reign, it is our planet that suffers from indigestion.

      • Children's & YA
        June 2018

        Plastic apocalypse

        by Arthur Ténor

        Originally, Plastivorax was a breakthrough in biotechnology. It was going to enable us to treat all plastic waste on Earth without residue or pollution. On the flip side, its inventor would pocket billions of dollars. But we hadn't counted on "that fatal little detail." A detail that this apprentice sorcerer (who thought he had mastered everything, even the laws of nature) refused to see. The result: nothing less than the end of the world, well… as we know it.

      • Picture books, activity books & early learning material

        How Did Humans Go Extinct?

        by Johnny Marciano, Paul Hoppe

        ONE DAY MANY, MANY YEARS FROM NOW, a young Nøørfbløøk child named Plib goes on a class trip to his favorite place—the Natural History Museum! Some kids love the exhibits on Outer Space. Others love the Evolution Room. Could Nøørfbløøks really have descended from frogs? BUT PLIB’S FAVORITE DISPLAYS ARE OF HUMAN BEINGS. Plib loves humans. All his favorite books and movies are about them, and he never goes anywhere without his trusted stuffy, Frank. He’ll never get to meet a human being, however, for one very simple reason: they went extinct ten million years ago! BUT, HOW DID HUMANS GO EXTINCT? SOME OF THE THEORIES PLIB LEARNS ARE SILLY, while others are sad; but all will allow the children of today to consider how their actions will affect the future. Johnny Marciano’s hilarious and timely story, brought to life by Paul Hoppe’s laugh-out-loud illustrations, provides a great vehicle for parents to discuss the environment, natural history, and global human behavior with their own curious Plibs.

      • Science fiction (Children's/YA)

        Shards

        by Leigh K Cunningham

        Having been cast into a spell to live as spirits in the river Kai, the twelve children continue their quest to find a way to break the spell in accordance with the rules as set out in the witch's manual. But just as they become familiar with the rules and the consequences of disobeying them, the witch introduces a few subtle changes, which leaves the spirits anxious about what is to come. Although the wood spirits and the river spirits worked together to stop the life-threatening development on the riverbank in Book I (The Glass Table), the alliance is once again in tatters after Ming Zhi Chen escapes. As a consequence, seven-year-old Jasper cannot be found, just as Faith Prattle disappeared after Toby Witherspoon's escape. With just four river spirits left at the glass table, and with the brains of their outfit gone (Ming), the river spirits start to wonder if  they will ever return home as children. Thoughts again turn toward a mass escape, albeit, more wood spirits would die.

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