Shy Willow -- Cat Min, Hardcover

Willow is shy. VERY shy.

Her home is in an abandoned mailbox, and she'd rather stay put. Outside kids scream and soccer balls collide, trees look like monsters, and rain is noisy in a scary kind of way. It's much nicer to stay inside, drawing. But then a young boy drops a letter in Willow's mailbox: it's a note to the moon asking for a special favor. Willow knows that if she doesn't brave the world outside, the letter will never be delivered, and the boy will be heartbroken. Should she try? Can she?

Cat Min delivers a breathtakingly illustrated story about shyness, the power of empathy, and what it means to make a friend.

Author: Cat Min
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781646140350
Audience: Ages 4-8

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/23/2020
School Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 82
Booklist 12/15/2020 pg. 100
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2021 pg. 66
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021

About the Author
Cat Min is an illustrator, animator, and writer. Cat grew up as a shy kid in Hong Kong, where she spent most of her childhood drawing and making comic books out of printer paper and staples with her best friend. She studied animation and film at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, and completed the Illustration & Visual Storytelling Summer Residency Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is also a member of SCBWI. Her (not so) guilty pleasures are: McDonald's french fries, sappy romance comics, mobile escape game apps, visual novels, and all things cheese.