Yaira's First Flight

By Carrow Brown

Young Yaira wants to fly. The wind has other plans--until it doesn't. Yaira's First Flight, a picture-book origin story from Carrow Brown and Gabriele Cracolici.

Far away on the bright blue world of Neptune, Yaira is a warrior in training. She can run fast and jump high. But flying? Flying is the one thing Yaira hasn't done--no matter how hard she flaps, leaps, and tries. A picture book about the gap between wanting and doing: the falls, the frustration, and the moment a young warrior learns that flying takes patience, courage, and listening to the wind instead of fighting it.

For grown-up readers of the Rippaverse line, this is the flagship heroine's origin made read-aloud size--the accessible introduction to a character whose adult-line adventures anchor the publisher's list. For kids, it's a try-again story with a heroine worth cheering for--and proof that even the mightiest fliers started out falling. The wind isn't the enemy. It never was. Ages 3-5, built for bedtime and the one-more-time requests that follow every good landing.

From writer Carrow Brown--one of Rippaverse Publishing's core creators since the company's earliest days--with art by Italian illustrator Gabriele Cracolici, whose bright, windswept pages give Neptune a sky worth reaching for. 32 pages, Rippaverse Backyard.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1971084670
• ISBN13: 9781971084671
• Release Date: March 2027
• Publisher: Rippaverse Backyard
• Length: 32 Pages
• Age Range: 3 to 5 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3