Picopaco - by Mocculere (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A sweet and heart-warming picture book about celebrating difference and working together.

Deep in the woods, lives the woodpeckers. All woodpeckers are known for making perfectly O-shaped holes to build their nests in. All, except one woodpecker - Picopaco. Unlike all the other birds she chooses to live in a little wooden house with a red roof. The other birds laugh at her strange ways, until one day a big storm arrives ruining all the nests. After, the woodpeckers decide they must rebuild their homes stronger than ever before, but they have one problem not one of them knows how to build a house - all except Picopaco. Perhaps they might learn a thing or two from Picopaco afterall?

Review Quotes

"Picopaco is completely adorable. A soft and inviting world that will delight children in its secret details." -- Briony May Smith, author of Margaret's Unicorn

"The straightforward text has a buoyant simplicity and a measured pace that make it absolute storytime gold, and the book tenderly respects Picopaco's need for space and things to be "just so" while also conceding that accepting help sometimes means accepting other ways of doing things. Candy-colored hues and watercolor-like textures keep the illustrations similarly light and breezy, [..] Aspiring birders, budding builders, or kids who just need to be reassured they have a right to their feelings will find this to be a gem of a book" -- Bulletin Center for Children's Books Recommended Review

Featured in Publisher's Weekly, Spring Children's Previews 2025

Featured in CBC's Hot Off The Press - April 2025

About the Author

Mojca Novak was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She spent most of her childhood doodling with her older sister, collecting turtle statues and dreaming of opening a dance school. Later on she studied Educational Sciences and East Asian Cultures at the University of Arts in Ljubljana. During the studies, her passion for drawing only grew bigger, so she shimed her career path into another direction. With a sketchbook and pencil in hand, she started freelancing as an illustrator in 2020. In 2023 her first picture book Pobegla radirka, written by Mojca Fatur, was published.