A Newt is Born

Content : The 5th title in the “Vice-Versa” series: poetic non-fiction picture books that can be read in both ways to better illustrate the cycles of nature.

A playful picture book to discover the little creatures of the pond by following the evolution of one of its most fascinating ambassadors, the smooth newt.
A dive into a rich world, illustrated with beautiful naturalistic watercolours, teeming with details and colours.
An exploration that unfolds a captivating gallery of portraits, showcasing frogs and toads, water beetles and dragonflies, herons and hoopoes, ants and snails... as the story progresses.

A book that can be read in two ways: this is the uniqueness of the “Vice Versa” collection. After following the life cycle of the newt step by step, you flip the album over to discover the other animals and plants that inhabit the pond.
It is a journey between land and water: like its hero, the book adopts an "amphibious" perspective, alternating images viewed from the sky with those submerged beneath the water.
Fluid, concise, and suitable for younger readers, the text remains scientifically accurate. At the end of the book, two documentary pages provide a humorous and simple way to learn more about the biology of newts and amphibians.
As for the watercolours, both aesthetic and realistic, they aim to stimulate the imagination while illustrating nature and the species that make it up, as closely as possible to what one can observe in the wild.

About the author: Even as a young child, with a hazel stick in hand and her bag on her back, Marion Bottollier-Curtet roamed the Savoy mountains or the Isère countryside, following in the footsteps of her grandfathers. Alongside these moments of connection with nature, she immersed herself in books, their imaginations, and their countless possibilities. Today, as a botanical researcher with the Ecologists of Euziere association, she explores animation, education... and returns to books!

About the illustrator: Between art and nature, Serge Müller’s heart is torn. And it has always been, as far back as he can remember. As a child, he doodled everywhere, all the time, and could spend hours observing birds and ants. Later, as a professor of plant biology at the University of Montpellier, after reading children's books to his children every evening, he was inspired to draw some for them himself.