Garret the Forgetful Ferret: a Rhyming Picture Book About Forgetfulness, Making Plan, and Never Giving Up (Ages 4-8)

Everyone forgets sometimes. Even the best of us. Garret the ferret forgets just about everything. His socks end up in the soup pot, his shoes up a tree, and his best plans slip right out of his head. So when his dear friend Rue has a birthday coming, Garret promises her the finest party in the whole meadow. Cake, balloons, streamers, games, the works. But on the big day, he shows up with a basket full of acorns and string, and not one thing he actually needs. The party flops, and Garret decides he must be hopeless. Then his grandpa, old Gus, pulls him close with a gentle truth: forgetting happens to everyone, even grown-ups. The trick was never being perfect. The trick is making a plan. With a list, a note by the door, and a song to remember it by, Garret learns that a slip does not mean you do not belong. Told in warm, galloping rhyme made for reading aloud, Garret the Forgetful Ferret is a tender story about memory, self-kindness, and trying again, for children ages 4 to 8. A "Let's Talk About Making a Plan" page at the end helps grown-ups and kids carry the lesson off the page.

Pagina's: 26, Paperback, Independently published