★Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Spanish (Chile and Argentina)
★Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
★Recommended — Amnesty International
★Best Picturebook Illustration — Amadora International Comic Book Festival (2008)
★Recommended — Gulbenkian/Casa da Leitura
★Finalist — 2nd CJ Picture Book Festival, New Publications category (Korea, 2008)
★English translation available

This is a story about neighbours and the relationships between them. About expectations and prejudice. About the idea we have of ourselves and about discovering the other.
About the small and larger differences that separate us, and how we can open up to (or else shy away from) the world. About the world as a place of transformation: global, complex, rich and, sometimes, difficult to manage.
About territories and borders, about spaces and identities. About that particular adventure of sharing a dividing wall with others… about neighbours, therefore.
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My building was always very quiet.
Nothing ever happened there…
But one day, a huge removal van stopped right in front of our door…

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).