Follow Lola on a beautifully illustrated journey to learn how humans and plants are at once different and similar.

If Lola were a plant, she wouldn’t be a dog, a cat, a mouse, a penguin, a gnat, or a hippopotamus, but she would still be alive and well.

In If I Were a Plant, Lola discovers that plants are the most numerous living beings on the planet. She also finds out how they get their food without being able to move and how they breathe despite not having a mouth or nose, along with many other things she never thought a plant could do.

A book for discovering unusual facts about plants and for looking at something you thought you knew with fresh eyes.

About The Author

Gaia Stella is an award-winning artist based in Milan, Italy. She is the author and illustrator of several books, including Become an Architect with Tadao Ando (helium 2021, in collaboration with the Pinault Collection Bourse de Commerce) and If I were A Fungus, which has been translated into six countries so far. Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue Bambini, and The Boston Globe. Gaia’s colorful and geometric imagery is inspired by a variety of sources, such as brutalist architecture, 80s toys, and books by Tove Jansson.