Squirrel Has Trouble Saying No

It is Bear's birthday tomorrow and Squirrel would like to prepare some delicious blueberry cookies for him. With just enough time to make them, she is about to set off to gather the blueberries from the forest when Fox arrives needing her help, followed by Duck and Doe too! When she finishes doing favors for all her friends, it is already night time and she still needs to gather the blueberries! With the light of the moon, she enters the forest, but by morning, she is still not back and her friends begin to worry. What has happened to Squirrel? A thoughtful story about your finding your voice and learning to say no.

Susanna Isern grew up among mountains in the Spanish Pyrenees. When she was little, her favorite hobby was to run around, discovering incredible insects and helping sick or endangered animals. It was then that animals started to whisper her stories, which she hurried to write in the notebook she always carried with her. She is the author of many children's books, most of them distributed internationally and translated into over a dozen languages. She has been awarded the Silver Medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2013 in the USA. Leire Salaberria was born in Andoain (Spain) in 1983. Currently, she lives and works in San Sebastián. She majored in Fine Arts in Bilbao and studied a postgraduate in Children Illustration in Barcelona. She has participated in different courses with Javier Zabala and Jindra Capek in Italy. Leire has exhibited her work in different countries around the world. Her work has been selected to appear in Bologna Children's Book Fair 2012, IV Ibero-American catalog of illustration 2013, 2014, Sharjah International Book Fair 2013, 2014. In 2014 she won an Honorable mention at the Sharjah International Book Fair. Since 2011 when she published her first book, she's illustrated several books in Italy, Mexico and Spain.