Wild Child: Forest's First Birthday Party
By Tara Zann and Dan Widdowson
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In the third installment of Tara Zann's Wild Child chapter book series, Forest attends his first birthday party and finds himself battling the decorations!
Forest goes with Olive to their classmate's birthday party. Shy Olive is as nervous as ever. She wants to make nice with Josie, which means everything will have to go perfectly. But when Forest defends the animal-shaped piñata and mistakes the candles for a fire emergency, his antics upset the birthday girl and nearly ruin the party. This time, Olive will learn that even a popular wild child like Forest still needs a best friend to show him the ropes.
With playful prose, heartfelt humor, and black and white illustrations to complement Forest’s hilarious escapades—this chapter book series for perfect for reluctant and avid readers.
Don’t miss Olive’s and Forest’s earlier adventures, Wild Child: Forest’s First Home and Wild Child: Forest’s First Day of School!!
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Tara Zann
Tara Zann can't imagine living in a place without tall trees. Just like Forest, she has a spirit of adventure, though she might use a zip line instead of swinging from tree to tree on a long, dangling vine. She has no official pets, but dozens of creatures tend to stop by her backyard treehouse on a regular basis.
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Wild Child - Tara Zann
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1
Josie Letay’s house stood in front of Olive and Forest like a big blue present waiting to be unwrapped. It especially looked like a present today, because today it was dressed up with shiny streamers and gold balloons for Josie’s eighth birthday party.
Olive was dressed up, too: New overalls. New light-up sneakers. New Olive. She had embarrassed herself at every one of Josie’s parties so far, but this year, she was finally going to get it right.
Except they were already twenty-three minutes late.
Forest sprang out of the car, landing on all fours like a wild cat ready to party-pounce. Olive eagerly stepped out after him, and her dad honked the horn as they rushed to the door.
HONK, HONK, HONK!
Forest yelled over his shoulder.
HONK, HONK, Forest! Have fun! And Olive, remember your goal,
her dad called.
We’ll have fun, Dad,
she said. Olive knew that sometimes just saying things made them true. That’s what a goal was: a wish that you said out loud.
I will have fun and make new friends, she thought.
I will not embarrass myself like last time or the time before, she thought.
I will be the bigger person and try to get along with Josie, she thought.
That last one was going to be hard, especially after the Wizard of Oz play. Josie had been the most popular girl in school since kindergarten, while Olive had been a loner—until Forest had literally dropped out of a redwood tree and into her life a few weeks ago. But Olive knew she could do anything with Forest by her side. Since he had come to live with her family, her shyness had disappeared.
Well, it had at least shrunk. Her stomach bopped like the balloons tied to Josie’s porch, all mixed up with excitement and nervousness.
Forest leaped onto the porch and rapped his knuckles against the wood, just like a woodpecker. Olive smoothed her hair down with one