All day long Edgrr lay in a heap just as the little girl had left him.  Kenyon shook his head.  He just did not understand him.

“Don’t you want to be adopted?” he asked.  “Don’t you want to be loved?”

“No,” Edgrr growled.  “Real bears do not need love.  Real bears live in the woods and eat berries.  Real bears do not need anybody.”

Kenyon sighed, but it made him sad to think of all the wonderful things Edgrr was missing.

“We must help him,” Kenyon said to the other bears.  The shop was closed for the night, and all the people had gone home to their nice warm houses. 

“We must show him what it is like to be loved.”

“But how?” asked all the other bears.

“I do not know,” Kenyon sighed, “but we must think of something.  We must.”

So, all the bears sat and thought.  Kenyon wrinkled up his forehead as hard as he could.  No one said anything.  The shop got very very quiet.  Outside the wind howled and blew gusts of snow up against the window.  It was a cold February night and Kenyon was glad to be inside.

“That’s it!” he exclaimed.

“What’s it?  What is it?”

But Kenyon put his paw to his lips and winked meaningfully in Edgrr’s direction.  “Shh . . . .  I’ll tell you later.”

You will have to wait just a little bit longer to hear Kenyon’s plan. My new book, “Edgrr the Bear Who Wanted to be Real” will be published on February 1 2024. You can order it now from my web site: theclickercenter.com, or after February 1 through Amazon