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    The Adventures of Baylard Bear: a story about being DIFFERENT
    The Adventures of Baylard Bear: a story about being DIFFERENT
    The Adventures of Baylard Bear: a story about being DIFFERENT
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    The Adventures of Baylard Bear: a story about being DIFFERENT

    By Lucinda Sue Crosby

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    Being different can be a heavy burden at any age, but for a child? Who doesn’t remember getting picked last for Red Rover, messing up your book report in front of everyone or trying to ignore hurtful nicknames?
    Baylard Bear also knows what it’s like to be DIFFERENT.
    When he was just a few weeks old, he was left on the steps of a human orphanage by his bear parents, who wanted a better life for him. Now if Baylard has even a prayer of being adopted by a loving human family, he must learn to do all the things human children do.
    Join Baylard as he learns to embrace the world and celebrate his unique self!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucinda Sue Crosby
    Release dateMay 23, 2012
    ISBN9781476252292
    The Adventures of Baylard Bear: a story about being DIFFERENT
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    Lucinda Sue Crosby

    Lucinda Sue Crosby is an award-winning journalist and environmentalist. She is a former Hollywood actress and recorded Nashville songwriter. Her book Francesca of Lost Nation can be found at www.luckycinda.com or at amazon.com both in print and on kindle.

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      The Adventures of Baylard Bear - Lucinda Sue Crosby

      The Adventures of Baylard Bear

      a story about being DIFFERENT

      By

      Lucinda Sue Crosby

      Illustrated by

      Linda Moehlenkamp

      * * * * *

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Lucinda Sue Crosby at Smashwords

      The Adventures of Baylard Bear

      Copyright © 2012 by LuckyCinda

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Print 2012

      For more information about special discounts for bulk purchases, contact: laura@luckycinda.com

      Book designed by Laura Dobbins

      Editors: Elizabeth McAdams, Beaumont Hardy Editing, jane@beaumonthardy.com.

      Contributing editor, Laura Dobbins

      Children’s Book

      *****

      Dedication:

      For Margaret Rose and Wyatt James:

      Their joyous and loving acceptance of this old world and all the people in it is a constant, enriching reminder of who we really are!

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 – Introduction

      Chapter 2 – The Orphanage

      Chapter 3 – The Pretty Young Lady

      Chapter 4 – Baylard makes a Wish

      Chapter 5 – The Pretty Lady Returns

      Chapter 6 – A Different Kind of Saturday

      Chapter 7 – Moving Out

      Chapter 8 – Joe’s Diner

      Chapter 9 – On the Road Again

      Chapter 10 - A New Home

      Chapter 11 – At the Market

      Chapter 12 – The Mistake

      Chapter 13 – A Cold, Rainy Night

      Chapter 14 - Mommy

      Chapter 15 – About the Author

      Introduction

      This is a story about a bear, a very special bear. His name is Baylard. He is short and round with long arms and tiny ears and irresistible dark brown eyes.

      Baylard isn't like any other bear you've seen or read about before. He doesn't live in the forest. He doesn't live in a zoo. He lives in a house in a place called Pasadena with a human mommy.

      Like other children who are adopted, Baylard was an orphan. So, of course, he needed someone to love him. And his human mommy didn't have any children of her own so, of course, she needed someone to love her. That's how the two of them came to be together.

      This book was designed to be shared.

      Read it to someone you love and who loves you!

      The Orphanage

      When Baylard Bear was born, his mommy and daddy lived in the forest like other bears. But they were very, very poor. They both had to work hard every day – fishing and hunting and gathering fruit – and sometimes they didn't have enough to keep them from being hungry. You see, human strangers had begun to come to the forest. The human strangers fished and hunted and gathered fruit too. So bit by bit, the life that the bears knew was disappearing.

      It made them sad, this disappearance. Not for themselves. They loved each other deeply and that was enough for them. But in their hearts they knew they weren't ever going to be able to give their baby all the fine things he deserved.

      It was because they loved him so much that Baylard’s bear parents decided to do a very hard thing … they decided to give their precious boy up for adoption. They believed that someone else would love Baylard as much as they did and take care of him in a way they knew they couldn’t.

      So they wrapped him in a blanket of moss and took him to a special kind of home where all the children were human orphans. In the dead of night, they kissed and hugged him good-bye and left him on the front step. Baylard’s bear mommy cried because she knew how much she would miss her only son. His bear daddy’s heart was breaking because he knew he would never see sweet Baylard again. But as much as it hurt, they both understood they were giving their child the only

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