Meena Mouse's Perfect Raspberry - Paperback

by Trilby Plants (Author), Deborah Gagnon (Illustrator)

Meena Mouse eats the last raspberry without asking and then disobeys the rules. She goes into the dark, dangerous forest alone in search of a berry.Meena gets lost How will she find her way home in the dark?A story to help children understand responsibility, honesty and following rules.Every child fantasizes about going off on their own. This story is a chance for children to imagine and understand the consequences of their actions.A good read aloud for younger children, and older ones will be able to read it themselves. Activities relating to the book are available on the author's website: TrilbyPlants.com.

Author Biography

Trilby Plants is the author of Hubert Little's Great Adventure, a children's picture book about a brave frog. She has published poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories, a fantasy/horror novel, Gatekeeper, and Circles in Time, a historical time travel fantasy. Meena Mouse's Perfect Raspberry is based on a family story that happened to an ancestor in the 1800s. Plants is president of South Carolina Writers' Workshop. She is the editor of The Petigru Review, the annual literary anthology of the SCWW. A Michigan native, she lives with her sports junkie husband in South Carolina, where she writes, knits and plays golf. Meena will have more adventures. Deborah Gagnon is a self-taught digital design artist and photographer. Her creative journey evolved from sketching and painting to quilt-making with the arrival of her first child. Through her work with quilt design and digital embroidery, she quickly realized the creative potential of the digital design process. By the arrival of her fourth child, Deborah's free time was consumed by the creative outlet she found in designing digital scrapbook kits which eventually gave way to her love of digital photography. Deborah resides in Michigan with her husband and four children.