On the boat, the world seems soft and calm. However, under the water, strange things are happening.Fortunately, the child and his grandfather have their eyes wide open... A little tale that reminds us that each of us can act, at his level, to make the earth turn more round, in respect of nature and life.This book is part of the selection of the Chronos Prize, category CE1-CE2, 2021.

Under her huge straw hat, she is always in the shade. Whether it's sunny, snowy or raining hard, the little woman crosses the fields, with her nose to the wind. She goes where her path leads her, where her nature takes her. In my village, I remember, she arrived on a dusty day. In the fields, it was the day of the big chemical treatment. An ecological tale that brings together rivers, fields, nature and the human heart in the same family. An ecological tale that brings together rivers, fields, nature and the human heart in the same family, that of life, fragility and tenderness on Earth.

It's summer, the four members of a family are preparing for the next vacation. The debate is on. Which means of transportation will they use?

It all started with a sweet. As he was passing through Dici Street, Mr. Dubalai, from Dacoté Street, threw the wrapper of his soft caramel onto the pavement. A little later, Mrs. Prout-prout, who also lives on Dacoté Street, brought down a three-legged chair on Dici Street. On the same day in the same place, Mr. Léger got rid of his old fridge. "I've seen it all!" yelped a neighbour from her window. If she had known what was going to happen next, maybe she would have done something about it, right then and there. After a while, the people of Dici Street decided to react. The war on littering was declared.

As Mr. Marceau, the papiculturist, is about to tell us how he harvests honey, a tiny voice whispers in my ear: Honey, soon you won't see the colour of it! You won't be able to taste it. Men are killing us slowly.

- I would like a garden! A garden for my birthday.

Mum looked at me for a while, surprised, before she smiled and said:

- A garden, Tilo? But that's a good idea! Living in concrete, you forget about the earth. It could be as big as... half the balcony, don't you think? 

The encounter between a little girl and a whale in an amusement park, which triggers an action for freedom action for Freedom.

Sable often looked around. Feverishly. His sharp eye saw the little details of life. Her muzzle quivered. She would sniff, stick out her tongue to taste the air and then shake her head in disgust. Here, I did not yet know that Sable was worried about the World. I had never seen so much anger in her eyes before. She was sure of it... We had never known the whole air that the older ones told us. The air from before we were born.

A clothes-dryer bicycle, a sea vacuum cleaner, or a solar pressure cooker? Some quirky researchers are building surprising inventions to protect or clean the planet. Caught up in their research, they forget everything else. But in order to keep dreaming, the inhabitants will have to wake up...