• Age: 4 to 8
• Grade: p to 3
• Reading age: 4 to 8

This extra funny follow-up to You're Finally Here! can help young readers celebrate the end of a school year—or any well-earned success!

You did it! Off you go! You’re on your way! And you’re taking me with you…right? A bunny bursting with excitement wants you to know it's your biggest fan, it's been cheering for you every step of the way, and you’d better bring it along wherever life leads you next. After all, you'd have so much fun together—more fun than a birthday party! And you'd make a super strong team—stronger than duct tape! So it deserves to come with you. But wait...where exactly are we going?

This spirited story about the big moments in life and moving on to the next adventure is just right for graduation celebrations or any special time of the year.

La jeune auteure-illustratrice Mélanie Watt, née à Trois-Rivières, a remporté pour son travail de prestigieuses récompenses, dont le Prix Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz, le Prix Blue Spruce et le Prix Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon, tous les trois pour Frisson l'écureuil.

It was in a design class taught by Michèle Lemieux at the University of Quebec in Montreal that author and illustrator Mélanie Watt created her first picture book, Leon the Chameleon, which was later published by Kids Can Press. Watt went on to create several more books, including the Learning with Animals collection and Augustine, which was named an ALA Notable Children's Book. Watt has also illustrated Where Does a Tiger-Heron Spend the Night? and Bearcub and Mama, which won the 2006 IRA Teachers” Choices Project.

Mélanie's best known book, Scaredy Squirrel, has won many awards, including the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children”s Book Award for Children”s Picture Book and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator”s Award. The release of Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend was met with enthusiastic reviews and incredible sales, confirming the arrival of kid lit's newest superstar. Chester, Chester's Back! and Chester's Masterpiece are about a megalomaniac cat who is every bit the antithesis to Scaredy. Chester has already become a bestseller, and shows the breadth and creativity of Mélanie Watt.

Scaredy returns to take a few more tentative steps out of his comfort zone in Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach and Scaredy Squirrel at Night. Mélanie has often noted how the Scaredy Squirrel books helped her work out her own insecurities and fears, as the success of these titles has required her to venture out into the unknown, and like Scaredy she has found the experience truly uplifting.

Mélanie currently resides near Montreal, Quebec.

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Praise for You're Finally Here!

"Brings to mind the Pigeon series by Mo Willems in both tone and look."—The New York Times