Along the east coast of Australia, an underwater garden stretches over 2,000 kilometers. It shows as many colors as the rainbow. It is the Great Barrier Reef, inhabited by turtles, clownfish, manta rays, reef sharks... It is a privileged ground for scientists who seek to study the corals and protect thems from climate changes.

What a funny insect! Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and finally butterfly... Day butterfly or moth? Sometimes teeming with colors, sometimes camouflaged in the landscape, we don’t know where to turn as the butterflies amaze us.

Born As A Girl takes us from Mexico to Nepal, Kenya and Afghanistan to meet five young girls. They each tell us their own personal story and bring to light a social issue concerning the place of women and women’s rights in their country. Each account is followed by resources pages to broaden the debate and provide specific examples and information.

Eight-eight keys lined up on a keyboard, with a curved casing, three legs, a pedal assembly, music rest and set of strings under a lid… you’ll have recognized this as a piano! An album for learning everything there is to know about this legendary instrument, including its history, manufacturing, and method.

Deserts are teeming with life, but it hides out of sight. Plants and animals stick together to survive in this extreme environment. Their strategies are fascinating. Collecting dew at the top of dunes, concealing droplets of water in feathers, adapting the size of ears, and so on. Seeds can sometimes stay buried for years. And once the rain comes… the desert turns into a carpet of flowers!

We have seen what daily life is like, living under a pandemic, whilst we thought we were protected from infectious diseases. But Covid-19 is not the first pandemic to hit the world. From the plague to Zika and from cholera to dengue fever, what are these epidemics that sometimes spill across borders to become pandemics? Where do they come from? How can we react and get through them?

Day after day, it is the same story... Hector brings only 20 hazelnuts from the harvest, when his friends could collect even more that 100! What is he doing all day? When a violent storm destroy their forest, all the squirrels of the community realize that Hector was the wisest. A new forest is waiting for them...

To lose a loved one is a challenging time. We do not always find the right words to express what we feel. Some people prefer to stay alone, other prefer to gather with people… A title that deals with the subject of the mourning with delicacy.

A book about death thought for everyone.

The bats have wings. Indeed. But their wings are not made of feathers, They are covered with a thin dark skin. Little queens of the night, they like to nest all day long in attics and tree trunks. Each mother nurse their babies and soon… hop! It is time to learn how to hunt! During winter, let us leave them alone, it is hibernation time!

The Amazon River is an oversized river. It flows from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean through South America. It is a life source for the Amazon Forest and beats every records of biodiversity. Arapaima, pink dolphins, anacondas, capybaras… are the inhabitants of these waters. The riverbanks that shelter lots of species are nourishing fields for the rebeirinhos. Alas! The first incursions from the western world 600 years ago opened a race for the exploitation of the resources, which is growing continuously and leads to deforestation. Climate and indigenous people’s right to live in balance with nature are now threatened.

A mouthpiece and its reed, a curved neck, a straight conical tube with 19 to 22 holes, a system of keys and levers and a flared bell… it is the saxophone! How do we make the reed vibrate? How to blow and play a saxophone? How do we craft it? Which type of music do we play with a saxophone? Discover this bright and popular instrument.

With billions of cells, our body is well equipped! But what is exactly their purpose? How do they organize themselves? Which role do our organs and our microbiotas play in our immune system? And what about the vaccines? An up-to-date picture book!