Simona Mulazzani – illustratör

A lonely squirrel goes searching for a new home, only to discover that the best place is one where the whole community can live together. Joining Barefoot’s acclaimed collection of social-emotional titles, this tale offers the perfect opportunity to start conversations about coping with loneliness, the importance of community, and what makes a place feel like home. Beautiful illustrations by award-winning Italian artist Simona Mulazzani bring Squirrel’s journey to life.

From the acclaimed author of Over and Under the Snow, Kate Messner!Now in paperback, Tree of Wonder is an exciting introduction to the biodiversity of the rainforest biome. From two Great Green Macaws to 1,024 Leaf-cutter Ants, readers will delight in counting each animal that makes a home in the heart of the rainforest, where life multiplies again and again in the shade of just one almendro tree.• An eye-opening way of visualizing numbers• Features playful, forest-themed word problems• A lush and fascinating storyDeep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, one almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun—in and under those branches, all sustained by one tree, thousands of rainforest creatures are living. Count each one as life multiplies again and again in this book about the rainforest's abundant beauty, and the wonderful multiplicity of life.• A stunning read for kids who can't get enough of the rainforest and all the animals living in it• Equal parts educational and beautiful, this book is perfect for parents and grandparents, librarians, and math, literature, and science teachers• A great gift for kids 5 to 8 years old who love nature, rainforests, animals, and learning more about the world• Add it to the shelf with books like The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zommer, The Animal Book by Lonely Planet Kids, and A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Aston.

Princess Beatrix is excited to meet the amazing one-horned creature that has been sent as a gift to her father, the King of Portugal. Could it be a unicorn?But the new animal is not a unicorn – it’s a rhinoceros called Genda, who has travelled all the way from India, and Beatrix immediately loves him. She becomes Genda’s friend and protector, and is determined to persuade her father the King that this wild creature should be returned to his jungle home.This poignant story is inspired by  the real rhinoceros depicted in 1515  by Albrecht Dürer in his world-famous woodcut, which can still be seen today.

»Moby Dick« erzählt aus der Perspektive des weißen Wals.Mit »Moby Dick« ist der sagenumwobene weiße Wal als Schiffe zerstörendes Ungeheuer in die Weltliteratur eingegangen. Luis Sepúlveda lässt den Wal selbst zu Wort kommen, der seine Stimme voller Weisheit gegen die erbarmungslosen Jäger erhebt. Als Ältester der Herde war es seine Aufgabe, sich den Walfängern entgegenzustellen, um seine Schutzbefohlenen vor dem Tod zu retten.Ein starker Text, ein eindringliches Plädoyer für den Schutz der Wale und der Natur und eine erschütternde Anklage gegen die rücksichtslose Ausbeutung der Meere – für alle von 9 bis 99 Jahren.

When elephant Claudia finds a magic lamp and rubs it, a genie appears... But wait, the genie is female! Claudia goes on a great adventure and meets a dragon, an alien and a dinosaur... But what if all these were female too?La elefantita Claudia encuentra una lámpara mágica y cuando la frota aparece un genio… Un momento, ¿y si fuera una genia?Claudia vivirá una gran aventura en la que conocerá a un dragón, a un extraterrestre, a un dinosaurio… Pero, ¡un momento! ¿Y si fueran una dragona, una extraterrestre y una dinosauria?