One of the best parts about holding a beaver festival is that strangers often drop out of the sky to tell you about exciting beaver things they are working on. Like the donated beaver costume. Like Crockett tiles who asked to join us all the way from Grass Valley. Like Bronson Beaver Builds a Robot.
And now this.
Boris Simic is a man whose family fled the Balkan wars and eventually settled in Louisville Kentucky. He somewhow heard about the beaver festival and immediately decided he wanted to join us. So he bought his plane ticket and will be tabling at the beaver festival.
No, really.
In a small town in the Pacific Northwest called Beaverton lives Bobo the Beaver and his pack of close friends, Jamal the Big Black Bear, Tina the Fawn, Wolf Blitz, Lynxie the Lynx, Skee the Squirrel, and Chip the Chipmunk.
After Bobo and his pack learn how much climate change is starting to impact Beaverton, they band together to save their town and the planet.
The Bees Are Disappearing describes and depicts with amazing illustrations, the fight, led by Bobo the Beaver and his group of friends, against the destruction of their town’s forest. So Bobo and the pack organize, along with their other classmates, each of whom have a unique ability to help prevent the deforestation of their beloved town in order to save the bees and other wildlife.
Boris said he knows that flying to California will cost more than any book sales but he just wanted to meet beaver people. Which of course we have plenty of. I’m excited to meet Boris and hear all about how Bobo saves the bees and his town from climate change.
The part that made me laugh is that I’m so old that I distinctly remember meeting another beaver buddy from Louisville Kentucky years ago. Remember this lad?
