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    Bobby A Beaver's Tale
    Bobby A Beaver's Tale
    Bobby A Beaver's Tale
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    Bobby A Beaver's Tale

    By Kevin Redmond

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    Bobby is a beaver who always wants to help, and never stops working. When the flood of the century sweeps away his dam he goes to work rescuing animals that have been swept into the raging torrent. Some are his friends, some are strangers but everyone matters to Bobby. This is a tale of friendship, hardship and relationships. It is about a beaver who will not quit.
    You will enjoy the antics of Bobby and his friends and be inspired by the power of friendship and family. Read how they overcome the obstacles of living in the city and the tough the decisions they have to make to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Redmond
    Release dateSep 21, 2014
    ISBN9780993940200
    Bobby A Beaver's Tale
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    Kevin Redmond

    Hello I am Kevin Redmond. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I do have a full time job working in the engineering world, although writing is what I want to do it is few who can really make a good living at it. My day job pays the bills and my writing may do that someday but right now it is my release from the everyday grind.I have my first book published and I hope it is not my last. It took me to long to get my first book out but hopefully it won't be as long for the next.I am starting late in the writing business (51 years old), but It is something I wanted to do for a long time. I think everybody has a book or two inside of them, it is finding the time and space to let it out that is difficult. This world has far to many distractions that keep us from doing what is really important.

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      Bobby A Beaver's Tale - Kevin Redmond

      Bobby, A Beaver’s Tale

      by Kevin Redmond

      Illustrations by Janice Blaine

      Copyright By Kevin Redmond

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 978-0-9939402-0-0

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1. The Flood

      Chapter 2. The Reluctant Hero

      Chapter 3. The Stranger

      Chapter 4. The Rescue

      Chapter 5. Home for Now

      Chapter 6. Creatures of the Night

      Chapter 7. Morning Has Broken

      Chapter 8. Mystery Solved

      Chapter 9. House a Home

      Chapter 10. A Plan

      Chapter 11. Autumn

      Chapter 12. Winter

      Chapter 13. Spring Has Sprung

      Chapter 14. Lesson for Life

      Chapter 15. Great Idea

      Chapter 16. Coming Trouble

      Chapter 17. No!

      Chapter 18. Parting’s Sorrow

      Chapter 19. A New Home, a New Life

      Chapter 20. Rejoicing

      This book is dedicated to my daughter, the inspiration for the story, and to my wife—thanks for making me finish things.

      Introduction

      Every night, I told this story to a wide-eyed girl who fell asleep to dreams of Bobby and his friends helping each other. It was inspired by a real-life flood in Calgary in 2005 and by a beaver who used to have a dam close to where we lived. When my daughter was a bit older, she told me I should get this story published, so like a good dad, I listened to her. I hope you’ll enjoy this book. It’s a wonderful book to read to young ones and also a great first reader.

      There was a much larger flood in Calgary in 2013, just before this book was published. We thought 2005 was the flood of the century, but 2013 was much worse. Close to one hundred thousand people evacuated their homes.

      What was truly inspiring to see was strangers helping strangers, whether by offering shelter or shoveling mud out of somebody’s basement. You can tell the character of a city by how it responds in a crisis. I hope we all remember to help our neighbors when they need help, just like Bobby does.

      Chapter 1

      The Flood

      Jimmy Jack Rabbit woke with a cough and a sputter as water ripped his rabbit hole apart. The raging torrent rapidly destroyed his home, and he was washed away with it. He was swept down the river, and the current was too strong for him to even try to swim. He couldn’t tell which way was up or down. He splashed, kicked, and choked as the rushing water flipped him over and tossed him around. He finally found air.

      When he got a breath, he screamed, Help!

      The water flipped him over again, and he sank fast as the current sucked him under. Just when he thought his time was done, something grabbed his leg and pulled him up.

      "Oh no! he thought, I’m not going to drown; something’s going to eat me!"

      As he came above the water, he desperately gasped for breath and was tossed through the air onto the shore of the river.

      Oof! He landed with a thump on the wet grass beside the raging river. He looked back quickly, expecting something to come after him to eat him, but all he saw was a big tail slipping under the water. As he lay gasping on the shore, he realized his good friend Bobby the beaver had rescued him.

      I sure am glad he can swim, Jimmy said.

      He sat catching his breath on the shore and looked down the river to see if Bobby was still around. Bobby came out of the water further down the river with a wet fur ball in his mouth. It was one of the local cats from the houses up on the ridge. The cat looked really funny, shaking her paws and meowing as she walked up the hill. She looked so small with her fur all wet.

      Bobby splashed back into the water, swimming upstream to find other animals that might have been swept into the floodwaters.

      This was the worst flood Jimmy had ever seen. It had rained hard almost every day since the snow melted in the city, and the river rose slowly. Overnight the rain pounded down hard and, mixed with the surge of melting snow from the mountains, the river rose suddenly. Many animals were caught by surprise. Bobby’s dam and lodge were washed away in the raging torrent, which was why he was now trying to help those who had been swept into the water.

      Jimmy shook his head to get the water out of ears. Above the roar of the river, he heard a terrible bleating scream from upstream. A female white-tailed deer screamed and ran along the shore. Her fawn must have slipped and fallen into the river.

      Bobby swam as hard as he could upstream to meet her. The fawn kicked furiously to keep her head above water. Bobby pushed his nose into her side and forced her toward the shore. The fawn got her front legs on shore but was getting dragged back into the river when her mother grabbed her by the fur on her neck and pulled her onto shore.

      Jimmy recognized them now through the driving rain. It was Dawn the fawn and her mum.

      Wow. That was close, Jimmy said.

      Dawn the fawn lay gasping for air while her mum kneeled down, trying to keep her warm, and nudged her under a pine tree nearby.

      That beaver is a hero. I don’t know how I can ever thank him, Dawn’s mum said.

      Jimmy hopped under the tree to get out of the pouring rain. That beaver saved my life too, but I know he won’t take any credit, he said.

      Across the river, Bobby had what appeared to be a large bird in his mouth and was making his way to shore again. Through the rain, he could faintly see a pheasant that swooped and squawked on the far river bank.

      Bobby came out of the water near the female pheasant. She tried to lift her head, so he knew she was still alive. Her nest must have been swept into the river, and she probably refused to

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