It is absolute genius. You can spend hours reading What’s Inside? and it can be a new experience every time you come back to it.
---Children’s books Ireland

This is a fantastically clever idea for a book that will entertain children across a pretty wide age spectrum. Very young kids can simply practise identifying the various items. Slightly older kids can answer the questions, while those from middle primary onwards can test their memories in the harder challenges.
---Kids’ Book Review

A beautiful, brightly coloured book for chatty and lively children who like asking questions, pondering and observing.
---Milk magazine

★Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), French
★Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
★Selected — “100 Outstanding Picturebooks” (dPICTUS), Frankfurt Book Fair (2018)
★English translation available

There are thousands of objects all around us: in drawers, in cupboards, in backpacks and pockets, under beds and sofas…
Often, things don’t keep still, they get in a muddle (or is it us?), they move around and make us look everywhere until we find them. Because there are so many things and they are always on the go, they can surprise us!
We can open a drawer and… Ah!
We can put a hand in our pocket and… Oh!
We can peek into grandmother’s bag and… Wow?!!
And does anyone dare to guess what’s inside mum’s handbag?
In this book there are lots of pictures to look at and dozens of amusing challenges for all ages: for those who are still learning to talk and for all reader-detectives who like to find the clues and join A to B.
Are you ready to play?

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).