This month’s book is Colette’s Lost Pet by Isabelle Arsenault.

Colette (who is not allowed to have a pet) is new to the neighborhood. She fabricates a lost parakeet as a way to engage with the neighborhood children. The search for her missing bird grows as she meets more and more friends. Will Colette be caught in her fib?

Cooper thought this was a sweet book with lovely illustrations. She was amused at how Marie-Antoinette (who only speaks French) becomes gigantic in size. Who wouldn’t want to fly around the world on the back of their budgie? She liked how the neighborhood children worked together to try to find Colette’s bird. Cooper hopes that Colette someday adopts a real budgie. Or two.