No! I Won't Go to School

ALONSO NÚÑEZ was born in 1969 in Mexico City, and his parents named him after the literary world’s most beloved lunatic, Alonso el Bueno, better known as Don Quixote of La Mancha. He is the author of several bestselling children’s books in Mexico, which have been translated to Chinese, Korean, and Portuguese. NO! is Alonso’s first English-language children’s book. BRUNA ASSIS BRASIL was born in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1986. She majored in Journalism and Graphic Design, later specializing in Illustration, at the Escola de Disseny i Art in Barcelona. Bruna has illustrated more than 40 books and won the Jabuti Prize, Brazil’s highest award for children´s illustrations, in 2016. She also won the 2015 Açorianos Prize for Literature, and her work was selected in 2012 and 2016 for Crescer magazine’s Thirty Best Children’s Books of the Year in Brazil. DAVE MORRISON is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, including Clubland, Cancer Poems, and Psalms.

"A child’s imagination inflates school fears inMexico-based author Núñez’s first English-language book...In sophisticated pen-and-ink and photographic collages,Brazilian illustrator Brasil renders the teacher as a hydra and the school busas a horned monster, and sharp-featured students wear expressions ofwide-mouthed terror...Núñez iseffective at conveying the sense of doom that ruminating on the unknown canbring, while Brasil’s art blends creaturely details and photographic accents tostylized effect."