by Peta-Gaye Nash (Author), Anindita Modak (Illustrator), Shirley Aguinaldo (Designed by)
Meadow wakes up one morning in a bad mood. She is mean to everyone in her family. Her parents ask if she's lost her manners. Please and thank you have completely disappeared. She drops her sister's cell phone in the bath and breaks her brother's Spiderman toy and doesn't say she's sorry. The family embark on a journey through the summer garden to find Meadow's manners, asking the creatures who live in the garden if they have seen Meadow's manners. At the end of the day, Meadow remembers to say thank you. She says sorry to her brother and sister. Meadow realizes she's had her manners all along. She just didn't use them that day. This story is a reminder that we all have manners but sometimes we forget to use them.