Technical specs
Original title: Cem sementes que voaram
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145802 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: September 2017
4th reprint: April 2023
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Galician, Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish
One hundred seeds that flew away
(Portuguese edition)
A tree is waiting, expectantly.
What is she waiting for?
For the right day to release her seeds.
A day that is just right, a day that is the day!
That day arrives, but the adventure is just getting started… Because if we tot up and tally, how many seeds of the one hundred that flew away will find a safe place to land?
How many will be eaten by birds?
How many will end up at the bottom of a river?
And, in the end, how many will actually manage to grow into an adult tree?
In this book, we calculate probabilities, without ever losing hope. Even if the story appears to be one of infinite subtraction!
Who shares the mother-tree’s belief that everything will work out just fine?
(Will it, really? Let’s keep our fingers crossed!)
A book that brings the forest into the spotlight, celebrating the endurance of seeds, along with the intelligence of trees and Mother Nature more widely.
Suitable for readers of all ages.
Technical specs
Original title: Cem sementes que voaram
32 pages / 195 x 220 mm
ISBN: 9789898145802 / RRP: 12,50€
1st edition: September 2017
4th reprint: April 2023
© Rights sold: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Galician, Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish
Awards and recognitions
Finalist — Premio Orbil 2022 (Scientific Book)
Selected — Illustrator’s Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Books Fair (2018)
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
What they say
An intelligent book (…) which celebrates much of what a book can be. Without a doubt, one of Hipopómatos’ books of the year.
Hipopómatos na Lua blog, November 2017
An appropriate book in a year which, for the worst reasons, forests were brought to the attention of all of us (…) Great for renewing hope for the coming year.
Rita Pimenta, Público newspaper, 30/11/2017
Certain books have perfect timing; this is one of them.
Sara Amado, A Prateleira de Baixo blog, October 2017