Daily novelties in the E-book sector might have made us forget something that the latest Planeta Tangerina book reminds us of: the interactivity between a book and its reader doesn’t require a touchscreen; paper can manage it too. This book is calling you, can’t you hear it by Isabel Minhós Martins and Madalena Matoso is a constant prompt to the reader in terms of what a book can offer.
---Sara Figueiredo Costa, Blog Cadeirão Voltaire, novembro de 2013

It’s not enough to read the words with one’s eyes, or to leaf the pages with one’s fingers. We need to: type, press, drum, jump, watch, listen, smell, blow, walk, study, cuddle. And it works: for those who played “Snake” on their mobile phone and spend their lives sending emails, for those who recognise the echoes of Iela Mari or Hervé Tullet; for those who find a black-and-white page as enchanting as a full-colour one; for those who enjoy signs, patterns and stamps; for those for whom a smudge here and an imperfection there are intellingent and delicate art, this book will offer inspiration, irony and food for thought.
---Paula Pina, Cria Cria blog, October 2013

★Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Turkish
★Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
★Selected — “30 best children’s books of 2019”, CRESCER Magazine (Brazil)
★English translation available

We all know that books have voices inside them. Some voices talk, some sing, some cry… and others whisper.
In this book, there is a whispering voice that insistently calls the readers, a voice that comes closer and moves away but seems intent on taking the readers somewhere.
Whose voice is it? And where will it take us?
To find out, we’ll have to pass through a forest, a river, a storm and follow all the clues left by the wayside.
In the end, we might reach the conclusion that great friends aren’t made in a flash. Trust and friendships take time and patience to develop…
Are you ready for this adventure?

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…).

Madalena Matoso
Madalena was born in Lisbon, in 1974. She is an illustrator. She graduated in Communication Design at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts and later specialised in graphic design at the University of Barcelona.
In 1999, Madalena founded Planeta Tangerina together with three friends. Planeta Tangerina started out as a content, illustration and graphic design studio, and later in 2004 debuted as a publisher. From the beginning, their books have always wanted to explore new territories, question and challenge readers and be free.
Madalena has illustrated several books, such as When I was Born, With Time, Clap Book, Little Andersen’s Dictionary, Where Do We Go When We Disappear? and Inside – A Guide to Exploring The Brain.
She has won the Portuguese National Illustration Awards twice (2008 and 2018) and received several honourable mentions (2006, 2007, 2009 and 2014); and also the Children’s Illustration prize at the comics festival Amadora BD (2008 and 2011). In 2018, the illustrations from her book It’s Not That Hard were selected for the illustration exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Books Fair. The same book also received an honourable mention in the category “Children’s Picture Books” at the New York Book Fair. Her book Mountains has received an honourable mention from the jury in the category of Art, Architecture and Design (Bologna Ragazzi Awards, 2018). The book What’s It For? received an honourable mention from the jury in the category of Non Fiction (Bologna Ragazzi Awards, 2022).