Cleaver McBeaver & The Great Tornado

By Dan Hayashi

Cleaver McBeaver is the lovely, rhyming tale of an inventive and young Scottish Beaver. As a little boy in a small town, Cleaver loses his home and family to a treacherous tornado. In the process of rebuilding his life and hoping to reconnect to his past, he becomes a famous hot-shot lumberjack. Cleaver proves himself a survivor. After witnessing Cleaver's tree cutting prowess, an oblivious yet near-sighted foreman of a local logging team confuses him for a stout human logger. Cleaver so impresses the foreman, that he becomes the new team, but after awhile he dreams of changing his vocation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Hayashi
• Release date: Dec 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311702142

Dan Hayashi

After a Batchelor's Degree in Fine Arts, with a minor in psychology from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA in 1968, (now Calif. Inst. of the Arts, Sylmar, CA) I was drafted and spent 2 years in the military. A few years after returning home, my wife & I opened a computer graphics company in Lawndale, CA. We thrived. Though always interested in writing, my literary interests were put aside by business demands, until retiring in 1996. In 2010, I was serendipitously commissioned to illustrate a children's card game & two kid's books by a new company. This re-ignited my desires to combine my writing & caricature skills to publish children's books of my own. It was the perfect culmination of timing & the synergy of friendship. My new friend reinvigorated my dreams of authorship. I wrote & illustrated my first book in 2012, then another in December, 2013. Two more were published Dec, 2014 & June, 2015. I just completed my best so far, August 2015 is a preorder eBook. I have now authored & illustrated 5 animal tales & Illustrated a fellow author's 2 kiddy books & designed his children's card game art. I promise many more children's objects of entertainment & animal stories..

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Cleaver McBeaver & The Great Tornado

Animal Clan Series, Volume 2

Published by Dan Hayashi

Copyright 2014 Dan Hayashi

Story & Illustrations by Dan Hayashi

All rights reserved,

This Book is endorsed by the NBA

(National Beavers Association)

Cleaver McBeaver & the Great Tornado

Cleaver McBeaver McBean had a flash.

On his headboard at home, Mom hung a blue sash.

Cleaver McBeaver had many more flashes –

Recalling his house was a dam full of sashes.

Especially when he was raised in a den.

And dad’s violent sneezing caused all the breezing’.

But joy would be burstin’ whenever mom nursed him.

Cleaver McBeaver the littlest McBean,

Was raised they say, in ways to obey.

Till one day it seemed, he awoke from his dreams.

A tornado hit home, causing ‘em to scream.

Cleaver’s recall was jarred out of