zOleVara – förlag

Every summer, deep in the heart of the forest, a great contest is held: TREES GOT TALENT! Birch, fir, spruce, and even fruit trees-they come together in droves to find out which one in the grove will win the coveted top spot. Last year's laurels went to a Patagonian cypress, five thousand years tall. It's winner-take-all- This year, which tree will it be? Deep within a hidden forest, an extraordinary panel of judges gathers: Benjamin the baboon, Sylvester the sloth, Charlie the chickadee, Francisco the flying squirrel, Clarence the chameleon and Odette the owl. Their mission? To crown the winner from the four finalists in the annual TREES GOT TALENT competition. Each judge has a different idea of what makes a tree truly remarkable-until one exceptional contender captures every heart and earns a unanimous vote. This picture book is the first title in Heartwood Books, the children's imprint of Canadian publisher ?ditions zOleVara books. Dedicated to the world's most remarkable trees, the series takes a storytelling rather than a documentary approach. Heartwood-the dense inner core of a tree-may be made up of dead cells, yet it is its strongest and most enduring part. In the same spirit, the Heartwood Books collection reflects the publisher's long-term commitment to celebrating nature, deepening our understanding of the living world, and exploring the bonds that connect us to it. Anne-Laure's exquisitely crafted text delights readers of all ages with its playful language, wit and clever wordplay. Arnold brings her enchanting world to life with illustrations that range from wonderfully tender to truly breathtaking. The expressive, delightfully funny members of the jury make unforgettable guides, inviting readers to discover the extraordinary stories of some of the planet's most remarkable trees.

Gertrude Stein and the Lost Generation: A striking portrait of the woman behind the legends. Paris, the 1920s. At 27 Rue de Fleurus, writers, painters and intellectuals gather around an extraordinary woman who seems to know everyone who matters. Hemingway, Picasso, Matisse, Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and Braque all pass through her salon. Yet while the artists and writers around her would become cultural icons, Gertrude Stein herself was too often overshadowed by the legends she helped create. This graphic biography brings her back to the centre of the story. Born in Pennsylvania in 1874 into a wealthy Jewish family of German origin, Stein moved to Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and settled in Paris, where she lived with her brother Leo and, later, with Alice B. Toklas, her lifelong partner. Together, Stein and Toklas created one of the most celebrated salons of the modernist era, a meeting place where literature, painting, ideas and radical new ways of seeing the world collided. Valentina Grande and Eva Rossetti draw a vivid portrait of a woman who stood at the crossroads of modern literature, avant-garde art, American expatriate culture and changing ideas about gender and freedom. Rather than reducing Stein to the glamorous circle she inspired, Grande and Rossetti ask a sharper question: why did so many of the people around her become legends, while Stein herself was so often pushed to the margins of the story? Translated from the Italian by Monica Meneghetti