Pet goodbye · ages 6–10
The Memory Garden
Concept brief
An approved cover direction and a story outline. This book has not been illustrated or published yet.
A family remembers an old dog through specific ordinary moments and plants one living memorial together.
The story, beat by beat
- Say what happened
The garden did not replace Sunny. It gave their remembering somewhere to grow.
- Name what is missed
- Remember one ordinary thing
- Plant and revisit
The character, held steady
The family remembers their golden dog through a photo, smooth stones, and white flowers.
Planned scope
One approved cover direction. The 12 inside pages are planned, not produced.
The words live in the page layout, not inside the artwork — so you can fix a sentence later without touching the illustration.
When it feels like theirs
Read your child’s story plan before you decide about the pictures.
After Google sign-in, the whole story outline and the character are planned free around the moment you name. If it feels right, the cover and pages are quoted in credits before anything is drawn.