Bear King & Bobo Chico Stories for Kids Bob Hastings

Bear King and Bobo Chico meet up with Loar and Roen’s bus when they arrive at Cape Perpetua Marine Reserve on the Oregon Coast and help them along the Captain Cook Trail down to the tidal pools. While they’re exploring the tidal creatures at low tide ― learning a LOT from the Reserve’s Marine Biologist ― Bobo Chico becomes distracted. Leaving the safety of the group, he clambers over a rock ledge and discovers an opening. Believing it’s a cave with pirate treasure, he trips and falls, bonking...

Bear King, Bobo Chico, Loar, and Roar are arriving at Narita Airport in Japan. The boys are excited, but have trepidations about traveling in a strange land. The hosts greet and guide them through the airport to the rail line to Tokyo. Bobo Chico is confident (overly so) that his smartphone will navigate all language, trip, and map challenges. However, he loses this phone on the train and doesn’t discover it's lost until he really needs it. Bobo Chico becomes flustered, rude, and selfish abou...

Loar and Roen are merrily playing with their Legos, making a complex series of buildings, bridges, and vehicles that crisscross their ’world.’ When Bear King & Bobo Chico visit, they are impressed with the boys' work. Bear King takes a call from Ana, his civil engineer friend, and learns a disaster has destroyed an old bridge, which threatens to impact a sensitive river wetland area. When they all see images of the disaster, Bobo Chico is genuinely concerned. He is very familiar with the ...

Loar and Roen come to the Sky Cave to help Bear King understand how to use the self-parking feature on his FUV. Baer King explains how he dented his vehicle at the grocery store when Bobo Chico confused him…which Bobo Chico claims wasn’t his fault. Roen says he’d like to have a robot help him do his chores, which inspires Bear King to connect with his friend, a robotics engineer. The four friends get a special visit to the lab and learn that the engineer would like to test her prototype...

Bear King and Bobo Chico have picked up Loar and Roen whoare vacationing with their family in Black Butte. Wearing their space explorer costumes and helmets, the boys are eager to see the Dee Wright Observatory. They travel up the Old McKenzie Highway (OR 242) high into the Cascade Mountains and reach the lava rock structure at the McKenzie Summit. Since it’s summer, it doesn’t get dark until later in the evening. While Loar knows quite a bit about stars, Bobo Chico asks Bear King to explain ...

The nature that was sacrificed by industrial development now needs to be restored to save all living creatures − humans and other species. Bobo Chico and Bear King know this first-hand. They also know that family ties can become strained, need to be nurtured, and at times, restored. Bobo Chico brings his friends back to his ancestorial land, the Columbia Slough. He shares his family history and recommends how they can all help restore the Slough to be a healthy place for otters and others. Bo...