Carrie and the Little Rose

With my first children's book Little Children We Are published this is my second children's book inspired by a valentine date with a college girlfriend after going back to my dorm room. Originally the title was The Little Rose. I later rented from a young couple born to them a little girl named Carrie Rose who would call me Uncle Lenny. I decided to add a little girl's name Carrie and the story then became a story of Carrie having her mother tell her the story of The Little Rose. Hence the title Carrie and the Little Rose. I sat on the manuscript for years thinking that it may be just a writing for children until I saw artwork. After seeing artwork from the illustrator Beth Clingan who her and her now husband Mark were college best friends to me. I decided to commission her to illustrate as a book in colored pencil to which she proved it excellently. Although this book is about a little girl and a rose it is for girls and boys as the moral of the book is to be the best person you were purposed to be even if everyone doesn't seem to notice.