I LOVE this book! The illustrations are simple, yet really charming and sweet.  The story is one every child can relate to:  it’s a whole series of things that Aberdeen didn’t mean to do, but circumstances keep leading him a little farther from home on an adventure that starts with following a red balloon that floated by.  Before he knows it, he’s alone and lost and it’s getting dark.  When Mom comes and finds him, he apologizes and says he didn’t mean to worry her.  Mom hugs him tight, and tells him she knows he didn’t mean to.  But he did.  I think it does a fabulous job of recognizing that very human experience of creating unintended consequences that wasn’t really what we meant to do, while also getting in that reminder that we need to acknowledge those consequences, whether or not it’s what we meant to do.