Colette's Lost Pet

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Colette is exploring her new neighborhood and wants to make friends. But when she encounters someone her age she's never met before, she doesn't know what to say-so she hastily invents a lost pet! Things spiral a bit out of control as a neighborhood-wide search party is assembled and Colette makes her pet bird more amazing with each telling. Will the neighborhood kids catch on to her ever-growing fib? This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.Colette is exploring her new neighborhood and wants to make friends. But when she encounters someone her age she's never met before, she doesn't know what to say-so she hastily invents a lost pet! Things spiral a bit out of control as a neighborhood-wide search party is assembled and Colette makes her pet bird more amazing with each telling. Will the neighborhood kids catch on to her ever-growing fib? This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.
ISABELLE ARSENAULT studied graphic design at the UniversitU du QuUbec in Montreal, Canada. She has won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature three times, along with many other awards and distinctions. Two of her picture books have been named New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year. She lives and works in Montreal. Visit her on the Web at isabellearsenault.com.