★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

Seeds have endless and amazing forms. They can move, spread, and adapt to the environment. They're the perfect emblem of life: a seed, no matter how small or big, contains everything it needs to survive. This PiNO book was written by Beti Piotto, an agronomist specialized in biodiversity, and illustrated by the fine naturalist drawings of Gioia Marchegiani.

Gioia Marchegiani was born in Rome in 1972. After studying illustration at Istituto Europeo di Design, in Rome, she moved to Bern, Switzerland, where she lived for ten years. Today she lives in Rome, in between the sea and the city, with her family, her cat Linus and two tortoises. She likes drawing en plan air, strolling and gardening, activities that she considers as meditation practices prior to art creation. Her books were published in Italy and abroad, where she received national and international awards. She was selected for Bologna Children’s Book Fair's Illustrators Exhibition in 2017 with her book Il campanellino d’argento, with text by Maria Lai. Besides her work as illustrator, she teaches drawing and watercolor to children and adults and, with her association Semidicarta, she organizes workshops and actions to promote reading and green awareness.