The Beavers of Popple's Pond

Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, Willow and Popple begin the night’s work of dam repair, scent marking, tree felling …until a soft call alerts them to the arrival of the strange honorary member of their clan, author Patti Smith.

They scramble ashore and poke eagerly about her feet as she prepares to picnic with the beavers and to record the events that transpire on the shores of Popple’s Pond. Through seasons and years, these records, transformed into interwoven vignettes, invite the reader to enter the world of the beavers and the other inhabitants.

The author, a native of this landscape, brings a naturalist’s eye and a compassionate voice to these stories and other worlds where different characters await.

Keep this book wherever you have a moment for a short adventure— to follow the trail of a bear cub through the moonlight, enter the low-roofed world of the snowshoe hare... 

These stories offer a chance to reconnect with the nature that perseveres around us.

Patti Smith of Marlboro, VT is a naturalist at the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC) in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she writes and teaches about natural history. She lives in the foothills of Vermont's Green Mountains.