Several youngsters got a special treat Friday when Oscar the ferret, and his brother Cosmo, crashed a class at the Girassol Learning Center in Homer.

Homer resident Jeannette Aragones owned the ferrets and wrote a book called “I Am Oscar. I Am in Charge.” this year. Written from Oscar’s perspective, it details a day in his life with Aragones, who says in the book that she got Oscar “in a moment when she most needed a friend.” Oscar and Cosmo visited with the excited children while Aragones read to them from her book, making for a fun-filled afternoon.

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Photo by Megan Pacer/Peninsula Clarion Homer resident Jeannette Aragones introduces her ferret, Oscar, to an excited group of kids during a reading of her book, “I Am Oscar. I Am in Charge.” on Friday, July 21, 2017 at the Girassol Learning Center in Homer, Alaska.