★Rights sold in Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Korean.
★The series won 2017 Italian Andersen prize as Best dissemination project (Miglior Libro Di Divulgazione)!
★This series is dedicated to observing the life around us and bringing us closer to nature to discover its beauty. Meanwhile, it is also a practical series that teaches how to observe, analyze, experiment thus to study and know more about nature.
★Our life depends on a vast, diverse and fascinating environment in which important events happen at every moment, even if we don't know it or we don't realize it. In this series you can find interesting phenomena and extraordinary creatures.
★You will observe, reflect and discover through the narrations and illustrations by scientists, writers and artists. Under their guidance, you can learn to observe, draw, describe to tell the people around you how the world is made. The book in your hand is made to accompany you in your discoveries. You can also consider it as a useful guide for your explorations, a tool to carry with you to recognize what you see.

The series consists of 16 books:
Six legs and little more
Pioneers
Trees
Gardening
Scientists in the kitchen
Taking wings
Ortica
In the Seed
Tails, fins and gills
By the Sea
Bees
The Regular Structure of Nature
Staying on the path
Frogs, toads and newts
Evolution
Hoes, boots, and rakes

Like a Spirit of Nature, who can speak with plants, animals and elements, Ortica takes readers for a walk through Space and Time. The time of seasons and the space of woods populated by all kinds of living creatures. Fauna, flora, weather phenomena: everything is named by Ortica with care and amazement.

Marina Girardi writes comics and illustrated songs. She was born in the mountains surrounding Belluno, Northern Italy, in 1979 and she graduated at Bologna’s Academy of Fine Arts in Comics and illustration. Her comic Kurden People, published by Comma 22 Editore, was awarded Premio Komikazen Fumetto di Realtà 2009 and was translated in French by L’Agrume Edition. She also wrote Appennino (2010) and Tutta discesa (2013), an illustrated journal of a bike tour along Appennino centrale. In 2011 Giuda Edizioni published her collections of drawings titled Dalle Tane. She took part in projects such as La mia valle and Pasubiana, curated by Giulia Mirandola, and Torino e Le Alpi curated by Stefano Riba. She was invited at Clermont Ferrand Festival of Carnet de voyage. Together with Rocco Lombardi, she travels around Italy for Nomadisegni project: they arrange travelling workshops of comics for children and adults and perform a storytelling show bringing out the hidden stories of the landscape. On Saturdays she often makes drawings by the street with a special painter’s bicycle and on Sundays she turns back into a tree and keep growing in her mountains.