Franklin Fox likes things to feel just right.
 
His books should be straight.
His things should be in order.
And sometimes his worried brain tells him:
 
Check it.
Fix it.
Ask again.
Do it over.
 
Doing what the worry says makes Franklin feel better...but only for a little while.
 
Then Franklin meets Mrs. Owl, who teaches him something surprising:
A thought is not a command.
 
Franklin learns to face uncertainty, ride his worry wave, practice “good enough,” and discover that uncomfortable feelings can come and go without him having to fix them.
Most importantly, Franklin learns to ask himself:
 
“Am I doing this because I WANT to...
or because OCD says I HAVE to?”
 
A compassionate, beautifully illustrated story with therapeutic coping tools for children who struggle with obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviors, perfectionism, reassurance seeking, or the need for things to feel “just right.”
 
Franklin is bigger than his worries, braver than he thinks, and wonderfully imperfect.