Gorgeous illustrations, lyrical text, and a gentle love story set in a pond . . . this is Jan Brett’s beautiful picture book Mossy. On Mossy’s back there flourishes a beautiful garden, but this garden becomes a source of trouble when it results in Mossy’s separation from her true love, Scoot. With the delightful attention to detail that so categorizes her books, Jan Brett unfolds the story of Mossy’s return journey and the friends she meets along the way.

The simple narrative is full of surprises, not just in its unexpected ending, but in the comfort it offers to anyone, turtle or human, who has had to be separated from someone they love.

As Mossy and Scoot look into one another’s eyes at the book’s conclusion, “their year apart vanished into the past . . . ”

Recommended for readers of all ages.