Acclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis [...]

Children young and old will delight in the artistic splendor of this illustrated nonfiction tale from the author of "Henri's Scissors," which "Booklist "called an "exemplary picture-book biography."
Joseph Cornell loved to draw and paint and collect things. With these drawings and paintings and [...]

As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something - and starts by planting nine seedlings in her [...]

Under den heta sommaren 2012 reser Emanuel Sidea genom ett Sydeuropa i brand. I Aten, Rom, Madrid och Lissabon träffar han människor som ger sin bild av den pågående krisen – och de åtgärder som nu tas till för att stävja den.Eurosamarbetet skulle lyfta de fattiga länderna i södra Eur[...]