Technical specs
Original title: Um ano inteiro — almanaque da natureza
176 pages / 150 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145826 / RRP: 17,50€
1st edition: September 2017
1st reprint: January 2021
© Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified), Spanish
All year round
(Portuguese edition)
What’s the best week of the year to see the ladybirds re-awakening? And when can we see the first swallows? What’s the best time to listen to the nightingale’s song? And to listen to the deer’s roar? If I wanted to set up a nest box, when should I do it? And what about the stars? Which is the best season to see Sirius, the brightest star in the sky? And when do migratory birds pass here?
All year round invites the reader to experience nature throughout the year. It includes challenges for observing the lifecycles of plants and animals and discovering some of the most amazing transformations taking place around us every month, week after week, during the 365 days that the Earth turns around the Sun.
All year round is a complement to the book Outside (also edited by Planeta Tangerina), challenging readers with suggestions, nature tours and observations suited to each season and selected according to the calendar and the flora and fauna native to Portugal.
All year round: a timeless almanac and an invitation to go outside and discover a whole world of things!
Technical specs
Original title: Um ano inteiro — almanaque da natureza
176 pages / 150 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145826 / RRP: 17,50€
1st edition: September 2017
1st reprint: January 2021
© Rights sold: Chinese (Simplified), Spanish
Awards and recognitions
Recommended — National Reading Plan (Portugal)
What they say
It only happens very rarely but there are children’s books that you’ll need to buy twice. The first time, you buy it to give to a child but, looking to see if it’s suitable for their age and tastes, you get so taken by the book that you won’t stop until you’ve read it from cover to cover.
(…) It’s what happens with the book All Year Round from the admirable publisher Planeta Tangerina. Everything about the book is attractive, solid, fun, stimulating and pretty. Isabel Minhós Martins writes very well, always challenging us and teaching us things in an exciting and conspiring way (…) as if we’d discovered them all by ourselves: it’s one of the most difficult feelings to inspire in a reader. (…) The book is wonderfully illustrated by Bernardo Carvalho but that’s not all. They’re two of the founders of the publisher and they thought about the book as a whole. Reading the production details you’ll be amazed by the care they’ve taken.
Miguel Esteves Cardoso, Público newspaper, 22/04/2016
A book for talking about empathy, attention, and care.
Renata Penzani, Garimpo Miúdo blog, 15/06/2016
Here, between the illustrations, photograph and exemplary graphic design, a whole year’s worth of suggestions, walks and observations. The suggestions are varied, imaginative and often quite the challenge (…). It’s all interspersed with many pages for drawing and writing down observations, making this almanac more of a personal, graphic and literary diary for recording a year dedicated to discovering nature.
Pedro Miguel Silva, Deus me Livro blog, 03/08/2016