Dr. Pookie and the Case of His Missing Thought

By Izzy Church

In this mystery adventure, Dr. Pookie the bear shares the exciting and curious tale of the time he lost his thought. What is a bear to do when his friends and neighbors dare to attack his reputation? When Dr. Pookie begins to receive unwanted attention in the local newspapers, he does what any intelligent, sophisticated, well-to-do bear would do; he invites all of his friends and neighbors up to the tippy top of Bear Mountain for a lovely dinner party. After all, there is nothing more delightful than to be entertained by the most famous bear in the Little Royal Forest. Dr. Pookie then proceeds to tell his story and the hilarious adventure that follows as he frantically searches for his missing thought. Kids will join all the furry creatures in the Little Royal Forest as they search high and low for Dr. Pookie's missing thought.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Square Monkey Publishing
• Release date: Feb 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9780996499569

Book preview

Give a Bear a Hug!

Hello, everybody. My name is Dr. Pookie. I am a large brown bear with chocolate brown fur and piercing blue eyes. I live in a bear cave, just South of the North Pole, near the edge of the woodland on the very tippy top of Bear Mountain. I moved up here a long time ago, hoping to escape the constant commotion in the Little Royal Forest. Not all of my forest friends liked that I moved so far away, but the truth is, I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world! Since moving to Bear Mountain, I’ve had no other animals in the forest telling me what to do or how to do it. Still… in all the time I’ve lived up here, I haven’t been able to escape the gossip I stirred up during my youth. Late last night, I dug up some old magazines and reread what my furry friends wrote about me in my earlier years.

Dr. Pookie is the single most modern man-bear in the Little Royal Forest. You would never catch that bear hunk wearing the same drab brown fur coat. Bearly-Social Magazine.

I set the magazine down, stood up, and stared at my handsome reflection in the mirror. "Wow!" I exclaimed. It’s rough being this gorgeous! I adjusted my top hat. Most of the animals in the Little Royal Forest don’t know how to appreciate a bear with flare. They point and stare. I muttered aloud, It’s just plain rude!

I threw the magazine on the ground and began to dig through all the old weeklies [26] I had saved. I snatched up another leaflet. "You won’t believe what they wrote about me in the editorial section of Holy Bear News. It has to be one of the funniest appraisals I’ve ever had written about me! However, before I share it with you, I need to make one thing clear…"

I began to pace my cave, to and fro, pondering over the right words. "Now let’s see… I like to consider myself to be a bear with a conscience. [7] I try to do the right thing, but then again, I’m certainly no angel. What I’m trying to say is… these sort of things just happen to me. I held up the magazine and shook it. But once the animals got wind of it, they blew it all out of proportion and turned me into some sort of hero, which I’m not. I’m just a trendsetting, ruggedly handsome bear with a fantastic wardrobe and a state-of-the-art man-bear cave…