Collette’s Lost Pet

Isabelle Arsenault

New in the neighborhood (and denied a pet of her own), Colette invents one to engage her new friends. Soon her fiction becomes as large as the parakeet she has described and she paints herself into a corner. How will she resolve her dilemma? Arsenault perfectly captures, through her own text and illustrations, the challenge of making friends and the openness of children’s collective imagination.