Call me crazy, but if it were up to me to write a book about bear cubs in a beaver pond I’d promote it with some really great footage:

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Or some supporting research:

Or hey even an awesome illustration like this one by Ashely Wolff:

But what do I know, really. Because you could just as easily go on PRI and give an interview and maybe that would be all it took.

Earl J. Roberts’ new book “Bears in the Beaver’s Pond” is an inspiring fable of a beaver’s life with two bear cubs

Earl J. Roberts, a dedicated writer, artist, and retired teacher from Grass Lake, Michigan, has completed his new book “Bears in the Beaver’s Pond”: an evoking and insightful tale of an old beaver and his fostering of two bear cubs and innocently impacting the world he lives in.

Author Roberts shows how two dissimilar creatures can coexist in grace and cordiality: “When Old Beaver found it convenient to render aid to two hungry cubs, he never dreamed that he was creating a system in Asu Valley which spelled destruction to a unique society. This tale of some remarkable animals speaks clearly to our time.”

Published by Page Publishing, Earl J. Roberts’ enthralling masterpiece is made for children and adults, for it teaches all on how to be open to change and accept responsibility for things that are within their capabilities.

Inspiring fable? Like Jonathan living beaver? Well okay. Beavers are plenty inspiring, I’ll grant you that. And bears cubs are adorable. It’s true. But an allegory where they destroy society? Okay, Whatever. I guess it wouldn’t be a fable if you told the truth about how we’re the only ones destroying everything.

Although hey, I kind of like the idea of a fable where beavers are worried because some humans moved into their land and built a home and started a farm, so they talk it over with the wise old beaver because they are worried it will ruin the pond and afterwards they decide to dynamite it!