No, No, No

From Noemi Vola, creator of The Unfortunate Life of Worms, comes a powerful story about the limits of no and the possibilities of yes.

Right in the middle of whatever Spider is doing—brushing his teeth, reading a book, or watching a storm—he thinks of Frog. The strange thing is, Frog isn’t even nice. On the contrary, she’s quite rude. She never suggests going for a walk, never cares if anyone is hot or cold, and, most of all, she always says NO.

And there are all kinds of NOs:

• the big NO,
• the small NO,
• the baffling NO,
• the mysterious NO,
• and sometimes even the repeated NO, NO, NO.

Spider keeps all these NOs tangled in his web, but when a storm sweeps everything away, it brings a new friend who helps him discover the value of YES.