Barnaby Never Forgets by Pierre Collet-Derby

Barnaby, the rabbit, is a cartoonish-like character, doodled with few strokes. Illustration: Pierre Collet-Derby is also the illustrator of this book. He forgot to put on his pants!Ĭharacters: Barnaby, a forgetful but funny rabbit, who go to school in his underwear on a Saturday morning. Because, he just remembered, it’s Saturday. As Barnaby arrives to his beloved school (we hope) he finds the gates closed.

After all, he decides, being forgetful is not always bad.Įxcept when you go to school and the school is closed. Like the half eaten lollipop from the last year birthday party. Sometimes, though, he finds a forgotten dollar bill from his grandma, or an old treat. Or, when he forgot to take his wet bathing suit out of his backpack. Like when all the rats in the neighborhood had a party in his backyard because he forgot to put the trash in the garbage can. He can think of a handful of occasions when he forgot to do a very important thing that resulted in a disaster. Now, as he goes down the steps and strolls out the door to go to school, he admits that sometimes he forgets things. Then, as he praise himself for being usually great at remembering things (that he should remember anyway), he looks in the bathroom mirror, ready to brush his teeth, and voila! There they are. Nothing! He’ll be late at school again, he thinks.

He looks on his trash can and even on his fish tank. He’s down on his knees, on his room, under his bed, stirring up all the all the nick-knacks spread all over the floor. Barnaby, for example, forgot where he put his glasses (yes, yes, rabbits can wear glasses too, can’t they?). But who isn’t, you’d say and you’d be right. Storyline: Barnaby is a school age rabbit (yes, rabbits go to school too) that has a problem: he is, sometimes, forgetful.

Barnaby Never Forgets by Pierre Collet-Derby