Today starts off badly for little bat Pascaline: it’s her first day of kindergarten and she has to go, just like everyone else, but she refuses. “Never, not ever!” she declares. She’s NOT going. And nothing—not even her parents pulling her by her feet—will change her mind. She shrieks so loudly that, well, her parents shrink to the size of peanuts. Ha! Now Pascaline can hide them under her wings and take them to kindergarten. This could be fun! But what will happen at the end of the day when all the parents come to pick up their little bat children?

In „Niemals Nie Nicht!” award-winning picture book creator Beatrice Alemagna reminds us that small children need their parents to be close by … but not too close.

Translated from French by Irène Bluche.