Cody and Tanner fear the children

Shubi giggled and shouted down to Cody, “That’s real funny, but that is not why children shouldn’t be in the woods by themselves. They could get hurt! This is serious! I have to go see why these children are all alone. I have to help them.”

Cody shouted back, “Don’t bring them over here Shubi!” As Shubi took flight to go to the children, he loudly replied, “What? I can not hear you, Cody!”

Cody and Tanner were upset and afraid of the very thought that Shubi would bring the children in their direction. “Oh, what are we going to do?” asked Tanner.

“We will just have to hide and prepare to defend ourselves,” Cody told Tanner as he scratched his head and began to devise a plan.

Shubi and Friends find lost children

Meanwhile, at the top of the tree, Shubi was surprised to see two children, in the forest, all alone. He shouted, “Children are not supposed to be out here without their parents!”

Tanner and Cody both agreed. Tanner warned, “Children are not supposed to be out here because they throw rocks at us and try to trap us.”

Cody nodded his head and agreed, “Yeah, and when they catch you they pull your hair.” Cody started laughing and laughing at his joke because hair is another word for rabbit, spelled “hare.” Cody laughed so hard that he couldn’t even stand up anymore, and rolled on the ground laughing and kicking his feet.

“I don’t get it,” Tanner thought, as he shook his head while watching Cody savor his joke.

Shubi tries to get Tanner and Cody to fly

Shubi chuckled and then asked Cody, “Will you climb to the top of the tree and fly off with me?”

Cody did not have a very good sense of humor when someone was joking with him. He only laughed when he told a joke, or kidded around, so he got mad at Shubi and asked, “Do you see wings on me?”

Shubi laughed at Cody and said, “I am only joking. Why do you have to be so serious all the time? You are just grumpy, Cody! You are just grumpy!”

Shubi seemed to enjoy kidding around with both Cody and Tanner, just to lighten the mood. He was always playful and lively, and would do anything for a laugh. Still, Shubi’s friends were not always in the mood for his silliness.

Tanner and Cody watched Shubi fly to the top of the tree, flapping his wings very fast as his body floated to the top branch.

Tanner shouted “Wow! I do wish I could do that. I would have so much fun if I could fly like Shubi!”

Grumpy Cody said, “It’s just not normal. I would not want to do that even if I could!”

“Boy, Shubi is right,” Tanner said to Cody. “You are grumpy.”

Cody snarled at Tanner and told him that he would be grumpy too if he was attacked by Hermit Harry’s big mean birdie.

“Well, you shouldn’t have snuck into his cage to run off with his treats!” Tanner scolded.

The Blue Guardian

Chapter One

The Blue Guardian

Shubi the bird, Tanner the rabbit, and Cody the squirrel were all friends in the wild. Although they all used to be someone’s pets, many years ago Tanner and Cody were mistreated and left their homes. Shubi once had a home too, but his little girl grew up and moved far away, so he started a new life in the forest.

One afternoon Shubi jokingly said to Tanner, “Let’s go to the top of the tree and fly away!”

Tanner knew he was not a bird and could not fly,
so he replied to Shubi, “I do not have wings.
If I tried to fly with you, I would get hurt!”

Sheba’s Story Time

Hello Children! My name is Sheba. Someone told me that you want to hear about my special friend, Shubi.
He became known as the Amazing Shubi Bird because he is unlike any other bird in the world.
Sure, there are others that can talk, but Shubi is the smartest, funniest, and bravest of them all, as you are about to see.
There are many stories I could tell you about Shubi, but let me first start at the beginning.
This is how Shubi and his friends were adopted.

Shubi hopes for sustainable book printing in the future

In observance of Earth Day, April 22,here is an interesting article on printing college textbooks and how the environment is affected.

College students purchase about a tree per year in textbooks

Purchasing your textbooks will not only burn a hole in your pocket, but it will also destroy the environment. According to the Green Press Initiative, over the past three years the U.S. book publishing industry has consumed an average of 20 million trees per year to print books sold in just the U.S alone. Publishing companies have become a top contributor to the destruction of forests world wide.

"The global impact of this is rather mind-boggling," says treehugger.com. For instance, if a publisher sells a million copies of a 250-page book it will take 12,000 trees just to produce the necessary amount of books for this one title. By producing new editions of Textbooks every year publishers are destroying the environment to fatten their pockets. Just think about the amount of trees killed to produce enough textbooks for every student at every college & University. It gets worse...

The Green Press Initiative estimates that nearly 40% of the materials found in landfills are paper products. As this paper degrades, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide that eats away at our atmosphere. Each time a student buys a new book they are contributing to these numbers. It's time to make a difference.

Chegg is working together with students and organizations to help improve our environment. Renting your textbooks helps keep books in circulation and ensures that one less new book will need to be printed this year. In addition, for every book a student rents, Chegg will plant a tree in their name. Together we can make a difference, one book at a time.

Chegg is proudly partnered with Eco-Libris

Source http://www.chegg.com/EcoFriendly

Shubi Broom is doing his part by offering his book, “The Amazing Shubi Bird” in a downloadable version for only 3.99. It contains 42 illustrations and 42 pages of easy to read text. Visit www.shubibroom.com today.

Hello friends,
We will be previewing "The Amazing Shubi Bird" over the next several months. We will start at the beginning of the book, and feature a page and a graphic that matches it each week or so. This is to familiarize our readers with the book, and would be a great storytime reading for small children. Hopefully you and your friends will join us.