¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! by Diana Cohn

Diana has published 6 picture books for children including Dream Carver, Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!, Namaste! The Bee Tree, Mr. Diana Cohn is an educator and writer with an active commitment to social justice work. A frequent guest on many public media programs, he lives in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He is the author of eleven books, including The Forgotten Pollinators and The Reason for Flowers. Stephen Buchmann is a pollination biologist, photographer, and adjunct professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he studies buzz pollination and the microbiomes of bees. The creators of this book participated in the honey hunt with the Orang Asli, the indigenous people of Malaysia, and the extensive backmatter provides additional information on the country, the rainforest, the Orang Asli, and the giant honeybees. Will they be brave enough? Will the angry bees sting them? Or will they succeed and claim their place in the clan? Even though Nizam and his cousin Shukor have climbed the mighty Tualang in the daylight, they have never done it at night. But Pak Teh is getting older, and he is ready for someone to take over his role. Lying on a branch more than a hundred feet in the air, he uses the clan's secret method to harvest the honey without being stung. It is Pak Teh who has the high honor of climbing the tall Tualang tree deep in the rainforest. His grandfather Pak Teh is the leader of the honey hunting clan.

Nizam lives in a village in Peninsular Malaysia. This beautifully illustrated STEM picture book is both a fascinating insight into honeybee behavior and a satisfying story of coming of age. Skipping Stones Honor Book, Skipping Stones Special Recognition, Paterson Prize for Books for Young People

¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can! by Diana Cohn