Yaira's First Flight

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.