Coâ, coâ… Spring is here and the mating season begins! The female lays her eggs underwater. Soon, wriggling tadpoles populate the ponds. Legs come out of their body, their tail disappears and hop! The frogs are leaping out of the water!
Miko and Mila would love to see beautiful colors in their garden. So, what should they do? Remove the tin cans, crumpled up paper and piles of broken glass... Each piece of rubbish is placed in the correct bin, plant waste is made into compost and the transformation takes place!
A fun book about resing waste to improve our everyday lives.
What is laicism? What is the story of this notion around the world? Why do we speak so much about it?
Before making bread and wine, prehistoric men first made... cheese! After having domesticated sheep and goats, they discovered that the milk preserved in the stomach of the animals became solid. Very practical to transport! This new kind of food was also very nutritious. It is the rennet, a natural substance made by the stomach of ruminants that curdles the milk.
A small body, all in curves, four strings, that vibrate when the bow is played. Two S-shaped soundholes and a honey-colored varnish, ensorcing high notes, and woody bass…
What is this instrument?
Of course, this is the violin!
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...