Hobee's Quest: Goes Abroad

Robert B Chambers

Format ISBN Price   Paperback (6x9) 9781434336699 $ 10.90

Second in a series of Hobee’s Quest Books (Greed & Sharing) that are Non-Violent is Hobee and his side-kick Bobit. Join them as they continue their Quest to look for others like Hobee as they help and find different animals along the way. Hobee sets sail aboard a ship along with an old sea rat named O’Rourke. They meet and end up helping other animals, when the ship starts to take on water. The ship has to dock and make repairs on a small Island. Hobee and Bobit start to explore the Island and its inhabitants. Hobee soon finds out that the inhabitants all have a problem with greed and don’t like to share with others. The two friends try to help the Islanders become more cooperative, as they find new clues that were left behind by the Marching Rodent Explorers. They get involved in helping the Islanders, and as a result, they end up missing their ship. That leads Hobee to ask the Head Tool Teeker D.J. for help.

I grew up in a small town in Oregon where I worked in the

fields picking beans, strawberries and filberts and driving tractors and

harvesters. After high school, I worked briefly in the lumber mills and

then as a manufacturing machine operator for 20 years. I love to travel

and have driven through more than 46 states on a Harley Davidson. "Hobee's

Quest: Over Mt. Tomtoo" was the first book in a planned series about Hobee's 

adventures while on his Quest. 

This is my second Book in the series called "Hobee's Quest: Goes Abroad".

I donate a portion of the proceeds to after-school programs

in Ore.

Standing on the ledge by the river, Hobee cupped his hands around his mouth and let out a quacking sound. But no echo came back. He tried again, but there was still no echo. “That’s the strangest thing,” he said.

                Six replied, “My mama said a duck’s quack doesn’t echo.’

“Why not?” Hobee asked her.

                Six replied, “Do you want to hear the story the way my mama told it to me when I was young?”

                Hobee and Bobit both said, “Yes, we do!”

                “Then sit down on that rock and listen to the folk tale of the ‘Duck’s Echo,’” Six replied. “In the beginning all the birds and ducks had to walk up to the watering hole to drink like the other animals. The larger animals would often step on the smaller birds and ducks when they went to the watering hole. This was a hazard they had to face every day.

                Each day as the ducks approached the watering hole, the other birds made fun of their flat feet, the way they waddled when they walked, and the fact that they had bills, not beaks like other birds.

                One day the ducks were flying over the watering hole trying to find a place to land along the edge. But no one would let them land. As the ducks were circling, they saw three little birds get pushed into the deep end of the watering hole by some bigger animals. No one had the courage to wade out into the deep water and help the three little birds.

The ducks started to dive down through the air toward the deep end of the watering hole to save the three little birds, which were starting to drown. They quacked as they swooped down toward the drowning birds, and then dove into the water, grabbing them, and saved them from harm.

                To this day, the only birds that can land on water are ducks, and the only sound that doesn’t echo is a duck’s quack. That way you know which way the ducks are coming from if you need help from drowning. Yep, that’s the way mama always told the story.”

                Hobee said, “I’m part duck, and I never heard that story before. I didn’t know that a duck’s quack doesn’t echo.”

                “Me neither,” said Bobit. “I thought every sound had an echo.”

                Six replied, “Nope, not a duck’s quack.”

                Hobee said, “You learn the strangest things about yourself from others, even if you’ve just met them. Let this be a reminder to all of us that it’s always a good idea to be nice to everyone."