“This is a book which prompt action: thought and movement, mind and body. Simple and unpretentious, it is rigorous in terms of its facts, (…) and curious in its provocation.”
---Sara Amado, Prateleira-de-baixo blog

“Catching the sun, catching some air (…) is one of those books which should be shared with people of different ages and where science meets language, aesthetics, curious facts and day-to-day life.”
---Sara Figueiredo Costa

“(…) just as happens with other genres produced by this publisher (picture books, interactive books/game-books, YA narratives and others which are more hybrid) this book presents us with some refreshing suggestions which surprise us and introduce new layers to the reading experience.”
---Andreia Brites, Blimunda magazine

★Rights Sold: German, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Russian.
★Nominee -Premio Piccolo Galileo 2024 (Italy)

This book is a tribute to our place in space, to the Sun, to the atmosphere, to the Earth. It has information, activities, pages to breathe in deep with, pages to have fun with. In some pages, we answer questions that science has already found answers for (What is the wind? How big is the sun?); in others we tell stories involving bees, trees or flying seeds; in others, still, we talk about people, of course. The sun that comes in through our window, the air that goes into our lungs. The hats that fly away with the wind. The people that are the sunshine of our lives.

Are you coming?
The sun is waiting for us, let’s go.
We really could use some fresh air.
In collaboration with Sonia Antón (astrophysicist), Ricardo Trigo (meteorologist), Ricardo Tomé and Fernando Catarino (biologists).

Isabel Minhós Martins
Isabel was born in Lisbon in 1974.
When she was a child, she wanted to be a journalist, an archaeologist or a pediatrician. She didn’t end up being any of those things, but she does love what she does.
“For me, writing is like digging: you always find something – sometimes worms, sometimes water, sometimes stones, roots, tunnels… a lost shoe.
I like writing because I almost always find something unexpected. And I like reading for the same reason: someone dug and dug and dug and found something that then they show us in words”.
She studied at the Lisbon College of Fine Arts, before working as a creative in children’s communication. Later, together with a group of friends, she founded the publisher Planeta Tangerina.
A number of her books have won prizes or been distinguished by institutions connected to the world of children’s books: White Ravens Catalogue, Andersen Prize, Banco del Libro, Portuguese Society of Authors (2015), Gustav-Heinemann Friedenspreis (2017), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (2017). She received nominations to the ALMA – Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022 and 2023.
Many of her books have been published in other countries all over the world (France, Brazil, Korea, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Holland…).

Bernardo P. Carvalho
Bernardo was born in 1973 in Lisbon, and studied Communication Design at the College of Fine Arts in the same city.
In 1999, he co-founded Planeta Tangerina and he’s been working here ever since.
Over the years, he has received a number of prizes and distinctions for his books and illustrations, including the Opera Prima and Non-fiction Awards at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Portuguese National Illustration Award and the Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize.
“Lá fora” — a guide to exploring nature, with over 300 illustrated pages ­— is his most awarded book to date, having collected over ten awards and distinctions from all over the world.
Bernardo’s work has been published in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, South Korea, Norway, Brazil, Greece, Guatemala, Germany, The Netherlands, England, China, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and United States of America.