Lost and Alone — Sharon Cramer

Cougar Cub Tales: Lost and Alone, written and illustrated by Sharon Cramer is the first book in the Cougar Cub Tales Series and the prestigious winner of the Mom s Choice Award for best picture book. Lost and Alone, is about two sibling cougar cubs who live alone after losing their mother. The cubs are at odds one day, as siblings will be, and they decide to go their separate ways. The adventure becomes lonely and the cubs discover that the single most important thing is to find one another. Unusual circumstances come into play as the cubs are wonderfully reunited, never again to be separated. The story deals with the everyday childhood issues of friend or sibling rivalry and spats and conflict resolution. It communicates to a child in a wonderful, nonsensical rhyme, and the eighteen watercolors are an exquisite representation of this timeless story. See also the second book in the series, Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You and look for soon to be released, Cougar Cub Tales: The Sneezy Wheezy Day.