Yes We Can! - Tapa dura

Little Roo, Quacker Duck and Country Mouse are playing happily together when Little Roo challenges Quacker Duck to jump over a big, big log. Of course he can't and Country Mouse laughs at him. So Duck challenges Mouse to float in a puddle and when he crawls out dripping wet, Roo thinks it's hysterical. So then Mouse challenges Roo to chase his tail and Roo is too big to do so and Duck and Mouse laugh at his attempts. The three friends end up frustrated and fall out with each other. It takes Roo's mother to show them that if they celebrate what they can do, instead of laughing at each other, it's much more fun and enjoyable. Can they be friends again? "Yes we can!"

Sam McBratney has been writing children's books for nearly thirty years. Having taught at all levels of education he became a full-time writer in 1992. Sam's best-known work is the picture book Guess How Much I Love You, published in 1994 which has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and continues to sell a million copies a year. It's Lovely When You Smile is Sam's first book for Puffin and there are more Little Roo books planned. Sam lives on the edge of Lough Neagh near Belfast.