BUCK the CHUCK is an upbeat picture book series that helps children understand and appreciate freedom’s role in America’s founding principles. The series stars a lovable but reluctant hero––a woodchuck named Buck––who finds himself at odds with freedom thieves.
In each adventure, Buck tackles his challenge with help from his guardian whistle pig, Thor, a rather new-to-his-wings fellow. In child-friendly, bite-size pieces, the series explores why the Framers of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution thought freedom was so important. It looks at freedom itself, freedom of speech, free enterprise, equality, unalienable rights, and everything in between. Colorful and comical, BUCK the CHUCK simplifies the complex for kids and helps their champions explain just what it is that has made the United States of America the “shining city upon a hill.”
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Once upon a time not that many years ago, our storytellers were just like a lot of you — going to work, paying their taxes, Friday night fish fries, mucking out stalls (OK, not that part). Living the American Dream, you get the idea. Then they discovered their beautiful horse farm — loaded with woodchucks, OUR HEROES — was being tagged as a restricted “viewshed for the enjoyment of others” and other worrisome stuff like that. WHAT DID THAT MEAN?! They needed to defend their property! Their first response was measured, respectful, and a dead duck as we say in woodchuck-speak. So, they embarked on the five stages of grief. Finally, they got their act together, stood up for what they believed in and won the battle against the light-fingered, know-it-alls (THANKFULLY, since this is our home too!) But the experience made them think about their rights and the principles upon which this country was founded, on those ideals that set the great “American experiment” in motion. Then they wondered, WAIT A MINUTE!, if this overreach was 
happening to them, what about others? What about their granddaughter? IN FACT, just what was she learning in school? So, here we are, two good-looking woodchucks starring in this freedom series because everyone knows woodchucks are very smart (although the cat thinks he’s the smartest…but he is not.)
