Cover of Frankie and the Curious Cocoon Quest, showing Frankie, a blue-skinned little girl, standing in a tree and putting up "lost pet" signs.

Right this moment we now have information and an unique preview of Frankie and the Curious Cocoon Quest, the third guide in Caitlin Rose Boyle’s fanciful middle-grade collection about Frankie Fairy and her forest associates. Right here’s the writer’s description:

Frankie Fairy likes to study creepy critters! Joined by her biologist mother and outfitted with a discipline information stuffed with creepy critter info, Frankie finds all elements of nature fascinating! That’s till Tuna, her beloved pet wooly bear caterpillar, is nowhere to be discovered. Frankie’s mother thinks Tuna should lastly be coming into metamorphosis—a time of change when Tuna would rework from a cuddly caterpillar to a flying moth. Frankie desires Tuna to remain the identical little fuzzy worm she’s all the time been. However when she discovers the fantastic thing about the remodeling world round her, will she settle for that sooner or later, everyone—even Tuna—experiences some type of change?

“Frankie and the Curious Cocoon Quest is about transformation on this planet round us, and the metamorphosis we undergo on a private degree as we develop to embrace our greatest attainable selves,” Boyle says. “As she learns about modifications that bugs and animals undergo within the pure world, Frankie additionally has to be taught to embrace the longer term with open arms—no matter type it might take. It’s a narrative that’s actually near my coronary heart, and I did my greatest to place it on the web page in a manner that children and fogeys alike can each take pleasure in!”