La Petite Salamandre now also in German-speaking Switzerland

With Der Kleine Salamander, the French-speaking Swiss publisher La Salamandre is launching the counterpart to the successful French-language nature magazine La Petite Salamandre. The magazine will appear six times a year from the end of February 2012. The first issue, dated February 23, 2012, will be published in A5 format; from the second issue, the magazine will be available in A4 format. La Petite Salamandre is made of 100 percent recycled paper, contains only plant-based inks and is completely free of advertising.

According to the press release, it all began in 1983, when Julien Perrot, founder of the publishing house La Salamandre, wrote the first issues of the nature magazine La Salamandre with his typewriter at the age of eleven. The media interest in little Julien Perrot, who loved nature above all else, was enormous even then. At the age of eleven, the nature enthusiast appeared on television for the first time. After completing his studies as a biologist, Perrot decided to turn his passion into a profession and professionally distribute the nature magazine La Salamandre, which is aimed primarily at adults. In 1997, he thus became the youngest editor-in-chief in western Switzerland, and a year later the children's magazine La Petite Salamandre appeared for the first time. The decisive factor in his decision to produce La Petite Salamandre was that he wanted to offer children a magazine that he himself would have liked to read as a child, but which did not exist at the time.